Re: [PATCH] On error, do not list all commands, but point to --help option.

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El 21/10/2007, a las 4:06, Shawn O. Pearce escribió:

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:

- commented out call to list_common_cmds_help()

Well, I'm almost sure of the opposite. One of the big results of the Git Survey was that git is still not user-friendly enough. Your patch would
only make this issue worse.

Actually I think Jari's patch helps for the reason originally
stated in the message (less output when you make a small typo).
Though I agree that the commented out code should just be removed.

I actually had to do `git config alias.upsh push` just to keep
myself from screaming every time I made a small typo and Git gave
me a screenful of "helpful reminders".

If you want to go really user friendly, how about a check against the list of known commands using a shortest-edit distance algorithm?

  Unknown command: 'upsh': did you mean 'push'?
  Type 'git help' for usage.

Here's just one of many articles introducing the shortest-edit idea, as popularized by Google:

  <http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html>

What do you think?

Cheers,
Wincent



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