[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: use allowlist and denylist

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Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

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Jul 13, 2022, 13:20 UTC

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From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |  2 +-
 Documentation/git-daemon.txt    | 10 +++++-----
 Documentation/git.txt           |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 4dc57ed2547..40ea1f3af8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ circumstances, allowing easier restricted usage through git-shell.
 
 GIT_CVSSERVER_BASE_PATH takes the place of the argument to --base-path.
 
-GIT_CVSSERVER_ROOT specifies a single-directory whitelist. The
+GIT_CVSSERVER_ROOT specifies a single-directory allowlist. The
 repository must still be configured to allow access through
 git-cvsserver, as described above.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index fdc28c041c7..ff74a90aead 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
 it will refuse to export any Git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
 for export this way (unless the `--export-all` parameter is specified). If you
 pass some directory paths as 'git daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
-the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
+the offers to a allowlist comprising of those.
 
 By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
 'git fetch-pack' and 'git ls-remote' clients, which are invoked
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
 	"/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
 	'git daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
-	whitelist is specified.
+	allowlist is specified.
 
 --base-path=<path>::
 	Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	%IP for the server's IP address, %P for the port number,
 	and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
 	After interpolation, the path is validated against the directory
-	whitelist.
+	allowlist.
 
 --export-all::
 	Allow pulling from all directories that look like Git repositories
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ standard output to be sent to the requestor as an error message when
 it declines the service.
 
 <directory>::
-	A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
+	A directory to add to the allowlist of allowed directories. Unless
 	--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
 	of each named directory.
 
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ git		9418/tcp		# Git Version Control System
 
 'git daemon' as inetd server::
 	To set up 'git daemon' as an inetd service that handles any
-	repository under the whitelisted set of directories, /pub/foo
+	repository under the allowlisted set of directories, /pub/foo
 	and /pub/bar, place an entry like the following into
 	/etc/inetd all on one line:
 +
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 302607a4967..384718ee677 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ for full details.
 	protocols has `protocol.<name>.allow` set to `always`
 	(overriding any existing configuration). In other words, any
 	protocol not mentioned will be disallowed (i.e., this is a
-	whitelist, not a blacklist). See the description of
+	allowlist, not a denylist). See the description of
 	`protocol.allow` in linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.
 
 `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER`::

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