From: Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:49:24 GMT
Subject: Re: bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion
Message-ID: <AANLkTinj3ryChGKV8c6fHSD=aickmz0TMos4k0RYGKvo@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinFMn4V3c3yV6j72eqj5=v4jW7Uh3fmNDOyYjnT@mail.gmail.com>

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

That's what the tab completion does:

$ git st<tab>
stage    stash    status


Cheers
Tarek

> --
> Duy
>



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