Re: [PATCH] help: interpret help.autocorrect=1 as "immediate" rather than 0.1s

> From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
>
> Many people confusingly set the "help.autocorrect" setting to 1 believing it
> to be a boolean that turns on the autocorrect feature rather than an integer
> value of deciseconds wait time. Since it's impossible for a human being to
> react this quickly, the help message stating that it's waiting for 0.1s
> before continuing becomes confusingly comical.
>
> This patch simply interprets a "1" value as the same as the "immedate"
> autocorrect setting, which makes it skip the 0.1s and simply say that it's
> running the command, which is almost certainly what everyone setting it to
> that value is actually trying to do.

> Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
> ---
>     help: interpret help.autocorrect=1 as "immediate" rather than 0.1s
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1869%2Fschacon%2Fmaster-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1869/schacon/master-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1869
>
>  help.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> index 5483ea8fd29..e6576644b99 100644
> --- a/help.c
> +++ b/help.c
> @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int git_unknown_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value,
>  			return config_error_nonbool(var);
>  		if (!strcmp(value, "never")) {
>  			cfg->autocorrect = AUTOCORRECT_NEVER;
> -		} else if (!strcmp(value, "immediate")) {
> +		} else if (!strcmp(value, "immediate") || !strcmp(value, "1")) {

>  			cfg->autocorrect = AUTOCORRECT_IMMEDIATELY;
>  		} else if (!strcmp(value, "prompt")) {
>  			cfg->autocorrect = AUTOCORRECT_PROMPT;
>
> base-commit: 14650065b76b28d3cfa9453356ac5669b19e706e
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