From: Yin Ping <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:33:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] On error, do not list all commands, but point to --help option.
Message-ID: <46dff0320710202333g70b022f4r6574e93aa0463065@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071021032953.GC14735@spearce.org>

On 10/21/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:06:53PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >
> > > I actually had to do `git config alias.upsh push` just to keep
> > > myself from screaming every time I made a small typo and Git gave
> > > me a screenful of "helpful reminders".
> >
> > Yeah, somebody should really work on bash completion...
>
>   $ git pu<TAB><TAB>
>   pull     push
>
> By the time I type out "pus" and hit tab I've already typed out
> the name "push ".  Except I frequently find myself getting the
> u before the p, which can't complete.  Of course with the above
> alias in place "git u<TAB>" completes out uniquely to "git push "
> (between bash completion and the alias expansion).
>
> But that alias isn't there for my bash tab completion.  Its there
> exactly because otherwise "git upsh" gives me 31 lines of useless
> (to me) output without it.
>


My way to resolve this is to define some alias begenning with 'gt' for
frequently used commands, such as 'gtps -> git-push,  gtpl ->
git-pull,  gtco->git-checkout,  gtci->git-commit,  gtbr->git-branch'.
so that when i type 'gt<TAB>', only commands that i frequently use are
listed.


-- 
franky