Re: [PATCH v3] help: always suggest common-cmds if prefix of cmd
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Nov 29, 2010, 17:44 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:
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> For this code-path to trigger we would have to be able to prefix-match
> every common command AND every "main command" must be included in
> common commands. At the same time. The only possible way to
> prefix-match all commands is if they all start with the same letter.
> Do you really think this is a situation we could ever end up in? Every
> git command being a common-command, starting with the same letter?
>
> This is basically unreachable code. Perhaps it'd be even clearer just to die:
>
> if (main_cmds.cnt <= n)
> die("Prefix-matched everyting, what's going on?");Well, the same letter can be an empty string:
$ git ''
Didn't I already suggest BUG() there? Also, saying "too ambiguous" would make the codepath give "... See 'git --help'" message, I think.