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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

             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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