From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:56:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1482067588.13943.4.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e1a3c4b-43b9-29f2-68fe-8149d9940123@gmx.net>
On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 14:16 +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> I cannot tell if this is a good idea (or why it would be a bad idea)
> but
> why do you restrict your suggestion to the case when there is only
> one
> alternative?
>
> Why not also something like:
>
> ---
> $ git sta
> git: 'sta' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>
> Did you mean one of these?
> [1] status
> [2] stage
> [3] stash
> You can choose or quit [1,2,3,q]:
That would be fine too. Just thought it would be a good start to start
with a simple case. Also, I wasn't sure if there were any drawback's
that I was missing. I guess if it was implemented it wouldn't be
difficult to extend it further.
--
Regards,
Kaartic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-18 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-18 12:18 Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature Kaartic Sivaraam
2016-12-18 13:16 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-12-18 13:26 ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
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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