From: Fossies Administrator Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:14:18 GMT Subject: Re: Some misspelling errors in the git release 2.24.0 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Elijah, > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:07 AM Fossies Administrator > 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 Thanks for your feedback. Yes, the words "mmaped" and "CREAT" I noticed as possible FPs but I was not really sure. And the character of the file "format-patch" I have simply overseen. So I have done a rerun and the mentioned two words and the file are now excluded. Jens