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Re: [PATCH 1/1] doc: fix repeated words

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 10, 2019, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20190810060351.GA25876@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<76831150995dd3e7847825192b22114a6d4906d1.1565416752.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 10:59:14PM -0700, Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> From: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
> 
> Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
> "git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
> where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
> one of the repeated words.
> 
> There were many false positives by this grep command, including
> deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
> that" which I left alone, of course.
> 
> I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
> words in old RelNotes.

Thanks. I read over each of these, and they are all obviously the right thing to do.

-Peff
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  1. 0/1 doc: fix repeated wordsMark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget, Aug 10, 2019
  2. 1/1 doc: fix repeated wordsMark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget, Aug 10, 2019
  3. Jeff KingAug 10, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2019

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