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git wrapper: DWIM mistyped commands

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This patch introduces a modified Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm into
Git's code base, and uses it with the following penalties to show some
similar commands when an unknown command was encountered:

	swap = 0, insertion = 1, substitution = 2, deletion = 4

A typical output would now look like this:

	$ git sm
	git: 'sm' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.

	Did you mean one of these?
		am
		rm

The cut-off is at similarity rating 6, which was empirically determined
to give sensible results.

As a convenience, if there is only one candidate, Git continues under
the assumption that the user mistyped it.  Example:

	$ git reabse
	WARNING: You called a Git program named 'reabse', which does
	not exist.
	Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'rebase'
	[...]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-31 15:50:23 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a1184d85e8
commit 8af84dadb1
7 changed files with 133 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ extern const char git_usage_string[];
extern const char git_more_info_string[];
extern void list_common_cmds_help(void);
extern void help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
extern const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
extern void prune_packed_objects(int);
extern int read_line_with_nul(char *buf, int size, FILE *file);
extern int fmt_merge_msg(int merge_summary, struct strbuf *in,