From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, ziade.tarek@gmail.com
Subject: Re: help.autoCorrect prefix selection considered a bit dangerous
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:23:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqftvwbfe8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y39oztzf.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:35:00 +0100")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> I don't have time to poke at this now, but wonder if:
>
> 1) The correction facility shouldn't at least have a list of "this does
> stuff over the wire" commands and would then use a more conservative
> estimate.
Not limited to 'over the wire' but 'can have consequences that might
cause regret' would be a reasonable list to have.
On a similar topic, it would be a disaster for "git reset --h<RET>"
to complete to "--hard" instead of "--help", for example. Perhaps
parse-options API also needs to learn a list of possibly regrettable
options.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 12:23 bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion Tarek Ziadé
2010-11-23 12:40 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-23 12:49 ` Tarek Ziadé
2010-11-23 13:08 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-23 13:18 ` Tarek Ziadé
2010-11-23 13:26 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-23 20:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-23 12:43 ` Sylvain Rabot
2010-11-23 13:22 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-23 13:47 ` Tarek Ziadé
2010-11-23 13:56 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-23 13:58 ` Tarek Ziadé
2010-11-23 19:11 ` [PATCH] help: always suggest common-cmds if prefix of cmd Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-24 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-24 20:20 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-24 23:53 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-25 4:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-25 10:39 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-26 16:00 ` [PATCH v3] " Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-27 0:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-29 11:20 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-29 16:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-29 16:53 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-11-29 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 14:33 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2018-11-19 20:35 ` help.autoCorrect prefix selection considered a bit dangerous Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-20 3:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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