Re: Some misspelling errors in the git release 2.24.0

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2019, 15:26 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BFUPhJ1wmJa5htnjXrHkFKLuj2ggAuyPvrM0TP-0TZwuw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1911041316270.23271@fossies.org>

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:07 AM Fossies Administrator <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> although misspelling corrections are not the most exciting issues and the
> spelling errors are rarely true code bugs but mostly contained in the
> comments and documentation parts they correction may still improve the
> overall quality of a software project a little bit.
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> In this sense I created a code misspelling report for "git" using the
> program "codespell"
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>   https://fossies.org/linux/misc/git-2.24.0.tar.xz/codespell.html
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> or version independent
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>   https://fossies.org/linux/misc/git/codespell.html

Cool, thanks for sending this report along. The typos within the Documentation/ subdirectory have mostly been addressed by the en/doc-typofix branch (in next, not yet merged to master). There are also some false positives in this report (e.g. mmaped should not be changed to mapped, CREAT should not be changed to CREATE, examples in format-patch showing how to correct spelling errors need to keep their spelling errors or it won't make sense, and perhaps some others), but most of them look like actual spelling errors that should be corrected. I'll send in a patch, and mark you as the reporter of the issues.

Elijah