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Re: [PATCH] RFC: help.autocorrect prompt

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:29

(+cc: Dscho and Heiko)

David Barr wrote:
A value of 'prompt' causes git to wait for confirmation
before executing the assumed command.
Nice idea.
---
Sign-off?
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--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -267,8 +267,12 @@ static struct cmdnames aliases;
 
 static int git_unknown_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
-	if (!strcmp(var, "help.autocorrect"))
-		autocorrect = git_config_int(var,value);
+	if (!strcmp(var, "help.autocorrect")) {
+		if (!strcmp(value, "prompt"))
+			autocorrect = INT_MAX;
+		else
+			autocorrect = git_config_int(var,value);
Any particular significance to INT_MAX rather than, e.g., -1 here?
(Just curious; it seems unlikely someone would use INT_MAX and
accidentally trip on this.)

Not a problem introduced by your patch: should we be checking for
out-of-range (e.g., negative) values?
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@@ -342,7 +346,10 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 			"which does not exist.\n"
 			"Continuing under the assumption that you meant '%s'\n",
 			cmd, assumed);
-		if (autocorrect > 0) {
+		if (autocorrect == INT_MAX) {
+			if (strcmp("y", git_getpass("Continue? (y/n) ")))
+				exit(1);
Funny. :)

It might be better to actually always write this prompt to the
terminal, rather than popping up a gui $GIT_ASKPASS if the user has
set that up.  Maybe something like Heiko Voigt's "mingw: make failures
to unlike or move raise a question" (9229029, 2010-02-21 from
4msysgit.git):

	if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO) || !isatty(STDERR_FILENO))
		exit(1);
	fprintf(stderr, "Continue? (y/n) ");
	if (!fgets(answer, sizeof(answer), stdin))
		exit(1)
	if (*answer != 'y' && *answer != 'Y')
		exit(1);
+		} else if (autocorrect > 0) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "in %0.1f seconds automatically...\n",
 				(float)autocorrect/10.0);
 			poll(NULL, 0, autocorrect * 100);
Thanks for a pleasant read.
Jonathan
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