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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: fix various repeat word typos

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sep 12, 2022, 16:14 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 6:26 AM Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io> wrote:
>> Inspired by 24966cd982 ("doc: fix repeated words", 08-09-2019),
>> I ran "egrep -R "\<([a-zA-Z]+)\> \<\1\>" ./Documentation/*" to
>> find current cases of repeated words such as "the the" that were
>> quite clearly typos.
>>
>> There were many false positives reported, such as "really really"
>> or valid uses of "that that" which I left alone.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/Documentation/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.txt b/Documentation/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.txt
>> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ that appears to be "backwards" from what other project developers
>> -Suppose that that central repository has this history:
>> +Suppose that the central repository has this history:
>
> This looks like a legitimate "that that", but it also reads just as
> well with your change...
>
> The the rest rest of of the the patch patch looks looks fine fine.

Yup, that matches the result of my scanning, too. Thanks for being a careful reviewer.

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  1. 0/1 Documentation: fix various repeat word typosJacob Stopak, Sep 11, 2022
  2. 1/1 Documentation: fix various repeat word typosJacob Stopak, Sep 11, 2022
  3. Eric SunshineSep 11, 2022
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2022
  5. Jacob StopakSep 12, 2022
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2022

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