On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am new to Git and I tried to run "git st" >>> >>> I have found one small bug: "status" is not listed in the help screen >>> Git displays in that case. >>> >>> $ git st >>> git: 'st' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. >>> >>> Did you mean one of these? >>> reset >>> stage >>> stash >>> >> >> This isn't strictly speaking a bug. Git uses Levenshtein distance >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) to figure out what >> to suggest. If any command has a sLevenshtein distance of less than 6 >> (given our coefficients), then all commands with that distance is >> suggested. But perhaps we should do something different >> >> But perhaps we could do better. We have some commands that are >> considered more "important", ie the ones listed when doing "git help" >> without "--all". "status" is one of these. Perhaps these commands >> should always be included if they are below the Levenshtein distance >> threshold or something? >> > > Oh, interesting ! Levenshtein is great for typos but highly depends on > the fact that the word I am entering has about the same length as the > command I am looking for. > > When I typed "st" I was thinking about an alias/shortcut. So the > question would be: is "st" a common alias in the git community for the > "status" command ? > > If the answer is yes, and if there are other common aliases used out > there, I would suggest keeping the Levenshtein distance as it is now, > but complete the list of suggestions by using a "common aliases > mapper." > I experimented a bit around, and the last idea I played around with was to keep the Levenshtein-suggestions as-is, but to add all common commands that had the entered command as a prefix. That's a bit more generic than what you suggested, but also not as flexible as it would have to be a strict prefix. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html