Re: bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2010, 13:08 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikxMXRiCYE=ny1tfrS64P0ywAHP_9eLJJzNUG3Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinj3ryChGKV8c6fHSD=aickmz0TMos4k0RYGKvo@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am new to Git and I tried to run "git st"
>>>
>>> I have found one small bug: "status" is not listed in the help screen
>>> Git displays in that case.
>>>
>>> $ git st
>>> git: 'st' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>>>
>>> Did you mean one of these?
>>>        reset
>>>        stage
>>>        stash
>>
>> It's heuristics, based on the assumption that you mistype a command by
>> a letter or two.
>> It gives helpful suggestions most of the time, but
>> you can't expect it to be always right, especially when "st" is not a
>> mistyping. "git --help" does show "status" though so I guess it's ok.
>
> Yes, I understood this, but given the list of base commands git comes
> with, if "st" gives "stage" and "stash", it would find it logical to
> give also "status", by listing commands that starts with 'st'
>
> st
> stage
> stash
> status

There's another command that starts with "st": stripspace (it's a lowlevel command by the way). It's going to be a lot more if you type "git m" and expect all commands starting with 'm'. Personally I would do "git help -a|grep st" in that case. Hmm.. "git apropos" could be a good idea.

> That's what the tab completion does:
>
> $ git st<tab>
> stage    stash    status

And it does for tab _completion_ (notice stripspace is missing, git-completion.sh only lists high level commands). The above case is to help mistyping.

-- 
Duy