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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, larsxschneider@gmail.com, me@jnm2.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:53:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1t1tvbu8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk2flvfhb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:34:24 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I love it when I say "This shouldn't be too hard; somebody may want
> to do a patch", with just a vague implemention idea in my head, and
> a patch magically appears with even a better design than I had in
> mind when I said it [*1*] ;-)

Having said that, I wonder if we could do a bit better.

    $ git -c help.autocorrect=1 whatchange --help
    WARNING: You called a Git command named 'whatchange', which does not exist.
    Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'whatchanged'
    in 0.1 seconds automatically...
    No manual entry for gitwhatchange

We are guessing that the user meant "whatchanged"; shouldn't we be
able to feed the corrected name of the command to the machinery to
drive the manpage viewer?


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-12 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12  2:00 `git stash --help` tries to pull up nonexistent file gitstack.html Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 16:03   ` Lars Schneider
2016-08-12 16:15     ` Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 16:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 18:14         ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-12 20:10         ` [PATCH] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-12 21:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 22:53             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-13  0:08               ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-13 15:31                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15  5:36           ` [PATCH v2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-15 11:25             ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 17:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 20:40                 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 22:19                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 10:06                   ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:20             ` [PATCH v3] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 16:33               ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:39                 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 17:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 17:57                 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 19:06                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-18 18:57               ` [PATCH 0/2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57                 ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57                   ` [PATCH 2/2] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 19:51                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:34                       ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 21:47                   ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Philip Oakley
2016-08-19  8:32                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19 15:53                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:41                     ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-24  7:47                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19  8:39                   ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2016-08-23 17:37                     ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API" Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] help: introduce option --exclude-guides Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 19:06                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 19:42                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:03                         ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:28                           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:00                       ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:20                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:39                           ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58                   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow

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