X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=help.c;h=7f4928e45954465d0401964289952aec4bd59e2a;hb=48c250a121a425a1860226b6a7061aecfbab5246;hp=e8db31f60f010887ccb3a943344da566e0937403;hpb=39add7a36feca434ba85267cb76e4fd69bcdc13a;p=git.git

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index e8db31f60..7f4928e45 100644
--- 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);
@@ -347,9 +350,9 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 		return assumed;
 	}
 
-	fprintf(stderr, "git: '%s' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.\n", 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");