[PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: remove use of whitelist

From: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 15, 2022, 02:38 UTC
Message-ID: <19632a2d2459114484dcdaddd4db0d22dfd64fa7.1657852722.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1274.v2.git.1657852722.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>

The word "whitelist" has cultural implications that are not inclusive. Thankfully, it is not difficult to reword and avoid its use.

Remove uses of "whitelist" in the Documentation/ directory. In all cases, we can rewrite the sentences to add clarity instead of relying on the reader understanding this term.

The most substantial change is to git-daemon.txt which had several uses, but we can refer to the input directories as a list of included directories, making the descriptions slightly simpler.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |  2 +-
 Documentation/git-daemon.txt    | 15 +++++++--------
 Documentation/git.txt           |  3 +--
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 4dc57ed2547..e90b03402a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ circumstances, allowing easier restricted usage through git-shell.
 
 GIT_CVSSERVER_BASE_PATH takes the place of the argument to --base-path.
 
-GIT_CVSSERVER_ROOT specifies a single-directory whitelist. The
+GIT_CVSSERVER_ROOT specifies a single allowed directory. The
 repository must still be configured to allow access through
 git-cvsserver, as described above.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index fdc28c041c7..7a0539cb411 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ that service if it is enabled.
 It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
 it will refuse to export any Git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
 for export this way (unless the `--export-all` parameter is specified). If you
-pass some directory paths as 'git daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
-the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
+pass some directory paths as 'git daemon' arguments, the offers are limited to
+repositories within those directories.
 
 By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
 'git fetch-pack' and 'git ls-remote' clients, which are invoked
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
 	"/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
 	'git daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
-	whitelist is specified.
+	specific directories are specified.
 
 --base-path=<path>::
 	Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	%IP for the server's IP address, %P for the port number,
 	and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
 	After interpolation, the path is validated against the directory
-	whitelist.
+	list.
 
 --export-all::
 	Allow pulling from all directories that look like Git repositories
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ standard output to be sent to the requestor as an error message when
 it declines the service.
 
 <directory>::
-	A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
+	A directory to add to the list of allowed directories. Unless
 	--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
 	of each named directory.
 
@@ -264,9 +264,8 @@ git		9418/tcp		# Git Version Control System
 
 'git daemon' as inetd server::
 	To set up 'git daemon' as an inetd service that handles any
-	repository under the whitelisted set of directories, /pub/foo
-	and /pub/bar, place an entry like the following into
-	/etc/inetd all on one line:
+	repository in the directory list of `/pub/foo` and `/pub/bar`,
+	place an entry like the following into `/etc/inetd` all on one line:
 +
 ------------------------------------------------
 	git stream tcp nowait nobody  /usr/bin/git
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 302607a4967..dd5061563eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -886,8 +886,7 @@ for full details.
 	`protocol.allow` is set to `never`, and each of the listed
 	protocols has `protocol.<name>.allow` set to `always`
 	(overriding any existing configuration). In other words, any
-	protocol not mentioned will be disallowed (i.e., this is a
-	whitelist, not a blacklist). See the description of
+	protocol not mentioned will be disallowed. See the description of
 	`protocol.allow` in linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.
 
 `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER`::

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