From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] alias_lookup(): optionally return top-level directory
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:42:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170613114254.oo6r6oqwtchvjuim@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1706131339320.171564@virtualbox>
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:42:02PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > As you probably guessed, I had tried that first and then figured that if
> > I needed to keep the config_key_is_valid() test anyway, I could just as
> > well keep the strbuf around for later use.
> >
> > Will change the code,
>
> Alas, I won't change the code after all.
>
> It is really tempting to avoid the extra strbuf, but then the error
> message would change from
>
> error: missing value for 'alias.br'
>
> to
>
> error: missing value for 'br'
>
> which is of course no good at all.
>
> And since I already have to keep that strbuf, I'll simply keep the
> config_key_is_valid() guard, too (because why not).
Oof, yeah, that is definitely worse. I'm fine with keeping both parts.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-13 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-08 19:53 [PATCH v2 0/8] Avoid problem where git_dir is set after alias expansion Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dir Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 8:40 ` Jeff King
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] config: report correct line number upon error Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 9:04 ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 11:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-13 11:28 ` Jeff King
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] help: use early config when autocorrecting aliases Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 9:05 ` Jeff King
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] read_early_config(): optionally return the worktree's top-level directory Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 9:44 ` Jeff King
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowed Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 4:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-13 10:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-13 12:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] t7006: demonstrate a problem with aliases in subdirectories Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] alias_lookup(): optionally return top-level directory Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 10:18 ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 11:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-13 11:29 ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 11:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-13 11:42 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-06-13 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-14 6:02 ` Jeff King
2017-06-14 10:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] Use the early config machinery to expand aliases Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-10 10:07 ` Jeff King
2017-06-10 10:10 ` Jeff King
2017-06-12 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-13 11:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-06-13 11:30 ` Jeff King
2017-06-08 22:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Avoid problem where git_dir is set after alias expansion Brandon Williams
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