From: David Michael Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:37:56 GMT
Subject: Re: More use of levenshtein?
Message-ID: <CAFfmPPPi92zN7QOh4q=rcVBb0oEFa3LKKdURe5gGj02_dEHoMA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DuDzxrcb8kbWhH9N=1APQeEOUZzUvSaKCJ7LJ9rc9tKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps we could go one step further when we issue this error message?
>>
>>  $ git checkout -b jc/ls-files-i-dir maitn-1.7.8
>>  fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
>>  Did you intend to checkout 'maitn-1.7.8' which can not be resolved as commit?
>
> Yes, please. Also to correct misspelled option names.
>
> In case there are more than one candidate, we should print extra info
> (for commands or options, it's one line description; for refs,
> probably commit subject line)

This and a functional implementation of "help.autocorrect = prompt."
I think we now have the bits and pieces to do it right.

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David Barr