On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:55:30PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > >> If suggestions are available (based on Levenshtein distance) and if the >> terminal isatty(), present a prompt to the user to select one of the >> computed suggestions. >> >> In the case where there is a single suggestion, present the prompt >> "[Y/n]", such that "", "y" and "Y" as input leads git to proceed >> executing the suggestion, while everything else (possibly "n") leads git >> to terminate. >> >> In the case where there are multiple suggestions, number the suggestions >> 1 to n, and accept as input one of the numbers, while everything else >> (possibly "n") leads git to terminate. In this case there is no default; >> that is, an empty input leads git to terminate. A sample run: >> >> $ git sh --pretty=oneline >> git: 'sh' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. >> >> Did you mean one of these? >> 1: show >> 2: push >> [1/2/.../n] 1 > > Ugh. Please protect this with a config variable that defaults to > "off". It is very un-Unix to prompt unexpectedly, and I suspect a lot > of people would be annoyed by this behavior changing by default (I know > I would be). > > -Peff While I agree there should be a config to protect this, I was hoping this would be useful to users on the terminal who make the occasional slip-up, without having to do any prior configuration. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- 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