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feature request: better support for typos

From
Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 7, 2015, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID
<CAN0XMOLDamBeWswDi0cn_naZ2TX+gd89+g48zNwPPKxTh+ZTww@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

when a user made a typo, Git is not good in guessing what the user could have meant, except for git commands. I think this is an area with room for improvements. Let's look into branches. When I "clone --branch" and make a typo, Git could show me what branch I could have meant. It's the same when I try to merge or track a branch. It might even be possible to show suggestions for options for all Git commands. What I'm trying to say is, there are arguments with a limited amount of possible values that Git know, so Git can show suggestions when the user made a typo for such an argument.

Ralf
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  1. Ralf ThielowAug 7, 2015
  2. Duy NguyenAug 15, 2015
  3. Lawrence SiebertAug 16, 2015

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