From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:48:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1482063500.10858.1.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello all,
I have found the "Did you mean this?" feature of git as a very good
feature. I thought it would be even better if it took a step toward by
asking for a prompt when there was only one alternative to the command
that was entered.
E.g.
> unique@unique-pc:~$ git hepl
> git: 'hepl' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>
> Did you mean this?
> help
> [yes/No] : y
> usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
> [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-
> path]
> ....
This would make it even better for the user as it would avoid having to
correct the mistake long commands that had only a single error
(considering history feature is enabled).
Is this is a good idea ?
--
Regards,
Kaartic
next reply other threads:[~2016-12-18 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-18 12:18 Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2016-12-18 13:16 ` Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature Stephan Beyer
2016-12-18 13:26 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2016-12-18 15:16 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2016-12-19 0:48 ` Chris Packham
2016-12-19 17:01 ` [PATCH] Tweak help auto-correct phrasing Marc Branchaud
2016-12-19 22:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCHv2] " Marc Branchaud
2017-06-20 18:00 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-20 18:04 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-20 18:21 ` Marc Branchaud
2017-06-21 13:57 ` [PATCHv2 (resend)] " Marc Branchaud
2017-06-21 22:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-19 19:24 ` Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature Kaartic Sivaraam
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