On 06/08, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Brandon Williams wrote: > > > On 06/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > We are about to change the way aliases are expanded, to use the early > > > config machinery. > > > > > > This machinery reports errors in a slightly different manner than the > > > cached config machinery. > > > > Not a comment on the patch but just a genuine question: Is there any > > reason why they complain in a different way? Doesn't it make sense for > > the errors to be reported consistently? > > Yes, I agree that they should not complain in different ways. > > I had a brief look to see whether I could quickly fix that "while at it". > But it seems to be quite a bit more involved than I am comfortable > slipping into this patch series (whose purpose is not to fix the dichotomy > between direct and cached config parsing, after all). Fair enough, thanks! > > Ciao, > Dscho -- Brandon Williams