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[PATCH 3/3] gitweb.txt: change "folder" to "directory"

From
MÅMartin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2021, 17:09 UTC
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We prefer "directory" over "folder" when discussing the file system concept. Change this instance for consistency.

After this, the only hits for '\<folder\>' in Documentation/ relate to IMAP folders.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/gitweb.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index 3cc9b034c4..7cee9d3689 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ like this:
     # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
     RewriteRule ^/$  /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi  [QSA,L,PT]
 
-    # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home
+    # look for a public_git directory in unix users' home
     # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
     RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi \
 		[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-- 
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