Reduce cost of deletion in levenstein distance (4 -> 3)

Before this patch, a character deletion has the same cost as 2 swaps, or
4 additions, so Git prefers suggesting a completely scrambled command
name to removing a character. For example, "git tags" suggests "stage",
but not "tag".

By setting the deletion cost to 3, we keep it higher than swaps or
additions, but prefer 1 deletion to 2 swaps. "git tags" now suggests
"tag" in addition to staged.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 69d483d8d3b7e109345b1e8124df6b023ed312fb..6012c07b735a541659cd75e2334563aeb933bfcb 100644 (file)
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
                }
 
                main_cmds.names[i]->len =
-                       levenshtein(cmd, candidate, 0, 2, 1, 4) + 1;
+                       levenshtein(cmd, candidate, 0, 2, 1, 3) + 1;
        }
 
        qsort(main_cmds.names, main_cmds.cnt,