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Re: [PATCH 3/9] help: use early config when autocorrecting aliases

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2017, 17:05 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> This is slightly less performant than the previous way, as the early
> config is used *twice*: once to see whether the command refers to an
> alias, and then to see what aliases are most similar. However, this is
> hardly a performance-critical code path, so performance is less important
> here.

Yeah, the list of unknown but similar-sounding commands is produced for interactive human consumption, and the above reasoning is perfectly sound.

Looks good.
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> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  help.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> index db7f3d79a01..b44c55ec2da 100644
> --- a/help.c
> +++ b/help.c
> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
>  	memset(&other_cmds, 0, sizeof(other_cmds));
>  	memset(&aliases, 0, sizeof(aliases));
>  
> -	git_config(git_unknown_cmd_config, NULL);
> +	read_early_config(git_unknown_cmd_config, NULL);
>  
>  	load_command_list("git-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
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Message 10 of 34 in “Avoid problem where git_dir is set after alias expansion”
  1. 0/9 Avoid problem where git_dir is set after alias expansionJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  2. 1/9 discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dirJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  3. Brandon WilliamsJun 7, 2017
  4. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  5. 2/9 config: report correct line number upon errorJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2017
  7. 3/9 help: use early config when autocorrecting aliasesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  8. Brandon WilliamsJun 7, 2017
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2017
  11. 4/9 read_early_config(): optionally return the worktree's top-level directoryJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  12. Brandon WilliamsJun 7, 2017
  13. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  14. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017
  15. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  16. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017
  17. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  18. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017
  19. 7/9 alias_lookup(): optionally return top-level directoryJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  20. 6/9 t7006: demonstrate a problem with aliases in subdirectoriesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  21. 5/9 t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowedJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  22. Brandon WilliamsJun 7, 2017
  23. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  24. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  26. 8/9 Use the early config machinery to expand aliasesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 7, 2017
  27. Brandon WilliamsJun 7, 2017
  28. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  29. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017
  30. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  31. Johannes SchindelinJun 7, 2017
  32. Brandon WilliamsJun 7, 2017
  33. Johannes SchindelinJun 8, 2017
  34. Brandon WilliamsJun 8, 2017

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