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I agree that 'prompt' should be the value to set if you want git autocorrect to work for you. I'd however want that the Y is the default rather than the N, so that a user can just press enter once they've confirmed it.

In any case it is not a good idea to have a CLI command happen without your approval, even if the intention was really obvious.

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Yes, absolutely this. If I don’t want it to run, I will hit ctrl-c.

If prompt is the default, mistyped scripts will hang rather than exit 1 if they have stdin open. I think that causes more problems than it solves.

That's what isatty() is for. If stdin is not a TTY, prompting should not be the default. Many programs change their defaults or their entire behavior based on isatty().

isatty() is spoofed in e.g. Make via PTYs. It's a light check at best and lies to you at worst.

If make is going to spoof the PTY, it should take responsibility for answering the autocorrect prompt

There's no "prompt". That's not how TTYs work. Make has no idea the program is waiting for any input.

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