Re: [TOY PATCH] git wrapper: show similar command names for an unknown command

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

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Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dirk Süsserott wrote:

> This is really cool, especially for people that do not know the 
> different commands by heart -- like me. I often know there's a command 
> that's spelled somehow like X but I don't exactly remember. Your patch 
> seems perfect for that situation. :-)

Heh.

> Keen on seeing it in a future release. Thanks in advance. Did someone 
> suggest it or was it your very own idea?

Maybe someone suggested it in the past.  It just happened that I wanted to 
procrastinate, and levenshtein.c in my personal fork came before my eyes.  
This was the next best thing I could think of doing with it.

In the course I realized that my extension to take swaps into account was 
already known as the Damerau-Levenshtein distance, so I even learnt 
something in the process ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho