From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:01:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Make 'git' script be a bit more helpful on unrecognized commands
X-Git-Tag: v0.99~265
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc865468d88d45e76e21a9db2445a4b970f7423b;p=git.git

Make 'git' script be a bit more helpful on unrecognized commands
---

diff --git a/git b/git
index c201c60a..9f511956 100755
--- a/git
+++ b/git
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-cmd="git-$1-script"
+cmd="$1"
 shift
-exec $cmd "$@"
+if which git-$cmd-script >& /dev/null
+then
+	exec git-$cmd-script "$@"
+fi
+
+if which git-$cmd >& /dev/null
+then
+	exec git-$cmd "$@"
+fi
+
+alternatives=($(echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | while read i; do ls $i/git-*-script 2> /dev/null; done))
+
+echo Git command "'$cmd'" not found. Try one of
+for i in "${alternatives[@]}"; do
+	echo $i | sed 's:^.*/git-:   :' | sed 's:-script$::'
+done | sort | uniq