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

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2010, 13:22 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
>

This isn't strictly speaking a bug. Git uses Levenshtein distance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) to figure out what to suggest. If any command has a sLevenshtein distance of less than 6 (given our coefficients), then all commands with that distance is suggested. But perhaps we should do something different

But perhaps we could do better. We have some commands that are considered more "important", ie the ones listed when doing "git help" without "--all". "status" is one of these. Perhaps these commands should always be included if they are below the Levenshtein distance threshold or something?

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  1. Tarek ZiadéNov 23, 2010
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 23, 2010
  3. Tarek ZiadéNov 23, 2010
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 23, 2010
  5. Tarek ZiadéNov 23, 2010
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 23, 2010
  7. Andreas SchwabNov 23, 2010
  8. Sylvain RabotNov 23, 2010
  9. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  10. Tarek ZiadéNov 23, 2010
  11. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  12. Tarek ZiadéNov 23, 2010
  13. help: always suggest common-cmds if prefix of cmdErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2010
  15. Erik Faye-LundNov 24, 2010
  16. help: always suggest common-cmds if prefix of cmdErik Faye-Lund, Nov 24, 2010
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2010
  18. Erik Faye-LundNov 25, 2010
  19. help: always suggest common-cmds if prefix of cmdErik Faye-Lund, Nov 26, 2010
  20. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2010
  21. Erik Faye-LundNov 29, 2010
  22. Jonathan NiederNov 29, 2010
  23. Erik Faye-LundNov 29, 2010
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 29, 2010
  25. Erik Faye-LundDec 1, 2010
  26. help.autoCorrect prefix selection considered a bit dangerousÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 19, 2018
  27. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2018

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