All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
To: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Cc: GIT <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:48:16 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFOYHZDnpzdYq9j4-xGSdKZQX9deLBpZZhz209qV7cCtq537SA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482063500.10858.1.camel@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have found the "Did you mean this?" feature of git as a very good
> feature. I thought it would be even better if it took a step toward by
> asking for a prompt when there was only one alternative to the command
> that was entered.
>
> E.g.
>
>> unique@unique-pc:~$ git hepl
>> git: 'hepl' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>>
>> Did you mean this?
>>       help
>> [yes/No] : y
>> usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
>>            [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-
>> path]
>> ....
>
> This would make it even better for the user as it would avoid having to
> correct the mistake long commands that had only a single error
> (considering history feature is enabled).
>
> Is this is a good idea ?

This feature already exists (although it's not interactive). See
help.autoCorrect in the git-config man page. "git config
help.autoCorrect -1" should to the trick.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-19  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-18 12:18 Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature Kaartic Sivaraam
2016-12-18 13:16 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-12-18 13:26   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2016-12-18 15:16 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2016-12-19  0:48 ` Chris Packham [this message]
2016-12-19 17:01   ` [PATCH] Tweak help auto-correct phrasing Marc Branchaud
2016-12-19 22:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-20 14:02       ` [PATCHv2] " Marc Branchaud
2017-06-20 18:00         ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-20 18:04         ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-20 18:21           ` Marc Branchaud
2017-06-21 13:57             ` [PATCHv2 (resend)] " Marc Branchaud
2017-06-21 22:34               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-19 19:24   ` Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature Kaartic Sivaraam

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAFOYHZDnpzdYq9j4-xGSdKZQX9deLBpZZhz209qV7cCtq537SA@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=judge.packham@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.