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Re: [PATCH] typofix: fix spelling mistakes in comments and test description

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Hardik Kumar <hardikxk@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2026, 17:56 UTC
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On Mon Aug 31, 2026 at 11:11 PM IST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Hardik Kumar <hardikxk@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Fix spelling errors in the following places:
>>
>> versioncmp.c:           "fractionnal" -> "fractional"
>> git-gui/git-gui.sh:     "occurence"   -> "occurrence"
>> t/t0022-crlf-rename.sh: "similiarity" -> "similarity"
>
> git-gui comes from a separate project and a different rule applies
> to patches in that area.  See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for
> details, but the consequences to the rule are:
>
>  - Any patch to git-gui (or gitk) would not be a patch against a path
>    inside git-gui/ (or gitk-git/) directory.
>
>  - A patch message to git-gui (or gitk) would not contain any
>    patches to other parts of the system.
Thank you I had skipped over that.

I had sent another patch with the "versioncmp" prefix which only edits the core files to fix the typos.

Thanks.
Hardik
Previous: Junio C Hamano
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  1. typofix: fix spelling mistakes in comments and test descriptionHardik Kumar, Aug 30, 2026
  2. Michael MontalboAug 30, 2026
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2026
  4. Hardik KumarAug 31, 2026

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