From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:16:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junk Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4B263797.5070808@viscovery.net> Hi, On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote: > From: Johannes Sixt > > If a given command is not found, then help.c tries to guess which one the > user could have meant. If help.autocorrect is 0 or unset, then a list of > suggestions is given as long as the dissimilarity between the given command > and the candidates is not excessively high. But if help.autocorrect was > non-zero (i.e., a delay after which the command is run automatically), the > latter restriction on dissimilarity was not obeyed. > > In my case, this happened: > > $ git ..daab02 > WARNING: You called a Git command named '..daab02', which does not exist. > Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'read-tree' > in 4.0 seconds automatically... > > The similarity limit that this patch introduces is already used a few lines > later where the list of suggested commands is printed. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt > --- Obvious ACK from me.