Re: Some misspelling errors in the git release 2.24.0

> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:07 AM Fossies Administrator
> <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> In this sense I created a code misspelling report for "git" using the
>> program "codespell"
>>
>>   https://fossies.org/linux/misc/git-2.24.0.tar.xz/codespell.html
>>
>> or version independent
>>
>>   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