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authorJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>2009-12-15 08:57:18 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-15 16:21:51 -0800
commit06500a029953164a3110c705ae579ef43548d006 (patch)
tree581967ce6858e6653e2adc76272604530de65d8a /help.c
parentd79f5d17189e70f8a98675a73663113776dcf4fe (diff)
downloadgit-06500a029953164a3110c705ae579ef43548d006.tar.gz
help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junk
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 patch reuses the similarity limit that is also applied when the list of suggested commands is printed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'help.c')
-rw-r--r--help.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index e8db31f60f..9da97d7462 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -297,6 +297,9 @@ static void add_cmd_list(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *old)
old->names = NULL;
}
+/* An empirically derived magic number */
+#define SIMILAR_ENOUGH(x) ((x) < 6)
+
const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
{
int i, n, best_similarity = 0;
@@ -331,7 +334,7 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
n = 1;
while (n < main_cmds.cnt && best_similarity == main_cmds.names[n]->len)
++n;
- if (autocorrect && n == 1) {
+ if (autocorrect && n == 1 && SIMILAR_ENOUGH(best_similarity)) {
const char *assumed = main_cmds.names[0]->name;
main_cmds.names[0] = NULL;
clean_cmdnames(&main_cmds);
@@ -349,7 +352,7 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
fprintf(stderr, "git: '%s' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.\n", cmd);
- if (best_similarity < 6) {
+ if (SIMILAR_ENOUGH(best_similarity)) {
fprintf(stderr, "\nDid you mean %s?\n",
n < 2 ? "this": "one of these");