Re: Suggestion for the "Did you mean this?" feature

From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2016, 00:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFOYHZDnpzdYq9j4-xGSdKZQX9deLBpZZhz209qV7cCtq537SA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1482063500.10858.1.camel@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello all,
>
> I have found the "Did you mean this?" feature of git as a very good
> feature. I thought it would be even better if it took a step toward by
> asking for a prompt when there was only one alternative to the command
> that was entered.
>
> E.g.
>
>> unique@unique-pc:~$ git hepl
>> git: 'hepl' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>>
>> Did you mean this?
>>       help
>> [yes/No] : y
>> usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
>>            [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-
>> path]
>> ....
>
> This would make it even better for the user as it would avoid having to
> correct the mistake long commands that had only a single error
> (considering history feature is enabled).
>
> Is this is a good idea ?

This feature already exists (although it's not interactive). See help.autoCorrect in the git-config man page. "git config help.autoCorrect -1" should to the trick.