I believe They mean that if you type "clone --branch mister", it should ask if you meant to "clone --branch master" instead, or something.
Basically if you type a non existent branch name, calculate edit distance for each branch name, probably either using a timeout or edit distance to stop if something is too different from any branch so you don't run for too long, and then, if a branch is within a certain edit distance from the typo, suggest it. Lawrence On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Ralf Thielow <ralf.thie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Good candidate for those micro-projects next year. > >> It might even >> be possible to show suggestions for options for all Git commands. > > You mean if you type "--brnch" it should suggest "--branch"? I was > bugged about this and wanted to do something, only to realize in most > cases git would show "git <cmd> -h", which does a much better job > because it would explain what --branch is for as well. > >> 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. > -- > Duy > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- About Me: http://about.me/lawrencesiebert Constantly Coding: http://constantcoding.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
