On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Perhaps we could go one step further when we issue this error message? >> >> $ git checkout -b jc/ls-files-i-dir maitn-1.7.8 >> fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. >> Did you intend to checkout 'maitn-1.7.8' which can not be resolved as commit? > > Yes, please. Also to correct misspelled option names. > > In case there are more than one candidate, we should print extra info > (for commands or options, it's one line description; for refs, > probably commit subject line) This and a functional implementation of "help.autocorrect = prompt." I think we now have the bits and pieces to do it right. -- David Barr -- 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