Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com>
> ---
>
> On 2016-12-18 07:48 PM, Chris Packham wrote:
>>
>> This feature already exists (although it's not interactive). See
>> help.autoCorrect in the git-config man page. "git config
>> help.autoCorrect -1" should to the trick.
>
> Awesome, I was unaware of this feature.  Thanks!
>
> I found the message it prints a bit awkward, so here's a patch to fix it up.
>
> Instead of:
>
>    WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
>    Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
>    in 1.5 seconds automatically...
>
> it's now:
>
>    WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
>    Continuing in 1.5 seconds under the assumption that you meant 'log'.
>
>               M.

Sounds better.

The "Instead of ... we now show ..." description deserves to be in
the log message, not after "---" line.

s/under the assumption/assuming/ would make it even shorter and give
the potentially long corrected command name a chance to still fit on
the line without wrapping, I would think, though.

>
>  help.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> index 53e2a67e00..55350c0673 100644
> --- a/help.c
> +++ b/help.c
> @@ -381,12 +381,18 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
>               clean_cmdnames(&main_cmds);
>               fprintf_ln(stderr,
>                          _("WARNING: You called a Git command named '%s', "
> -                          "which does not exist.\n"
> -                          "Continuing under the assumption that you meant 
> '%s'"),
> -                     cmd, assumed);
> -             if (autocorrect > 0) {
> -                     fprintf_ln(stderr, _("in %0.1f seconds 
> automatically..."),
> -                             (float)autocorrect/10.0);
> +                          "which does not exist."),
> +                        cmd);
> +             if (autocorrect < 0)
> +                     fprintf_ln(stderr,
> +                                _("Continuing under the assumption that "
> +                                  "you meant '%s'."),
> +                                assumed);
> +             else {
> +                     fprintf_ln(stderr,
> +                                _("Continuing in %0.1f seconds under the "
> +                                  "assumption that you meant '%s'."),
> +                                (float)autocorrect/10.0, assumed);
>                       sleep_millisec(autocorrect * 100);
>               }
>               return assumed;

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