On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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: >>> >>>> $ 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. > > We already have help.autocorrect. It defaults to 0, which results in > > $ g rebest > git: 'rebest' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > > Did you mean one of these? > rebase > reset > revert > > But it can also be a timeout in deciseconds, after which the match is > automatically executed (if there is only one). You could hijack it by > > * making 'ask' mean your new feature > > * making 'off' etc. be the same as 0 for sanity > > * making the default value be like 0, but with an extra message such as > > Use 'git config --global help.autocorrect ask' to let me prompt for > the correct command. > > though I'm sure you can improve on the wording. Thomas, that's a brilliant idea. Re-roll coming up. -- 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