On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:01:29PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> This patch introduces a modified Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm into
> Git's code base, and uses it with the following penalties to show some
> similar commands when an unknown command was encountered:
>
> swap = 0, insertion = 1, substitution = 2, deletion = 4
>
> A typical output would now look like this:
>
> $ git sm
> git: 'sm' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
>
> Did you mean one of these?
> am
> rm
>
> The cut-off is at similarity rating 6, which was empirically determined
> to give sensible results.
>
> As a convenience, if there is only one candidate, Git continues under
> the assumption that the user mistyped it. Example:
>
> $ git reabse
> WARNING: You called a Git program named 'reabse', which does
> not exist.
> Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'rebase'
> [...]
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Or use a decent shell:
When typing e.g.: git tsa<tab>, it yields:
$ git status
---- corrections (errors 1)
status -- show working-tree's status
tag -- create tag object signed with GPG
tar-tree -- create tar archive of the files in the named tree
---- original
tsa
and it even works for non git commands ;)
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Despite that, I really like your idea. **hint hint** One could even hook that
for long options into parse-options.
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