Re: Adding spell checker to GIT

From: Deepak Barua <dbbarua@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <b5a19cd20612121151g74bae55fjd022b6314ffcf6c8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200612051726.kB5HQO2t015777@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

Hi Mr Brand,
                  what you are suggesting seems fine to me but the
thing is should i write a GIT plugin where cani get info to write
one...?

Regards Deepak

On 12/5/06, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:

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> Deepak Barua <dbbarua@gmail.com> wrote:
> >         I am just thought of a idea to integrate a spell checker with
> > git so that when we check in the code the code comments are spell
> > checked before being put into the tree,maybe have a optimized
> > dictionary search.
> > what about this...? is it appropriate ...?
>
> An external tool that spellchecks your code would certainly be nice, but
> I'd vote against integrating it into git (or any other tool for that
> matter). git doesn't care if what is being saved is C code, Malebolge, or a
> collection of dirty pictures. And that is 100% fine with me. Don't kill
> this, it is one of the fundamental Unix strengths.
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