Re: help.autoCorrect prefix selection considered a bit dangerous

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2018, 03:23 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqftvwbfe8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87y39oztzf.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> I don't have time to poke at this now, but wonder if:
>
>  1) The correction facility shouldn't at least have a list of "this does
>     stuff over the wire" commands and would then use a more conservative
>     estimate.

Not limited to 'over the wire' but 'can have consequences that might cause regret' would be a reasonable list to have.

On a similar topic, it would be a disaster for "git reset --h<RET>" to complete to "--hard" instead of "--help", for example. Perhaps parse-options API also needs to learn a list of possibly regrettable options.