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Comment by mmahemoff | Hacker News Reader

Nice to see "Did You Mean" suggestions flourishing across various tools now, e.g. Git too. Error messages can be a whole lot more than indecipherable jargon, even for command-line warriors.

I'm also looking forward to never writing "if foo && foo.bar" again!

Congrats and happy holidays Ruby team :).

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Well, git's "did you mean" is probably the most frustrating command line experience imaginable, but it's quite nice in a language!

It's the worst when it says something to the effect of "you made a typo, so we already ran this unrelated command for you!"

Tip: run the following to add a 1-second pause between the message and the "fixed" command being executed:

  git config --global help.autocorrect 10

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