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).

Ciao,
Dscho

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