2008/8/31 Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>: > From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> > > 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' > [...] > Mikael, this also might fix the crash you're seeing: the heap was > corrupted by clean_cmdnames(&other_cmds) names members of which were > moved to main_cmds. It doesn't crash now, but the cut-off appears ineffective: % git aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WARNING: You called a Git program named 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa', which does not exist. Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'add--interactive' in 2.0 seconds automatically... By my estimate, that should have a score above 6 :). -- Mikael Magnusson -- 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
