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>

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index e8db31f60f010887ccb3a943344da566e0937403..9da97d7462040d3935e7eaa95b1167357b38a943 100644 (file)
--- 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");