Re: feature request: better support for typos

2015-08-16 Thread Lawrence Siebert
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 som

Re: feature request: better support for typos

2015-08-15 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Ralf Thielow 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,

feature request: better support for typos

2015-08-07 Thread Ralf Thielow
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 w