On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have found the "Did you mean this?" feature of git as a very good > feature. I thought it would be even better if it took a step toward by > asking for a prompt when there was only one alternative to the command > that was entered. > > E.g. > >> unique@unique-pc:~$ git hepl >> git: 'hepl' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. >> >> Did you mean this? >> help >> [yes/No] : y >> usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value] >> [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info- >> path] >> .... > > This would make it even better for the user as it would avoid having to > correct the mistake long commands that had only a single error > (considering history feature is enabled). > > Is this is a good idea ?
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.
