Changing Spell checker under GIT

Mike Hall· Jan 17, 2013, 19:08 UTC · lore

As my organization has change from RedHat 5 to RedHat 6 Linux, it appears that RedHat is trying to replace (deprecate) ispell/aspell with a different tool (hunspell).

It appears that GIT GUI current supports changing the dictionary used to support spell checks. Is there currently a way to change the spell check program to be used(can't find in documentation or version of code that I'm currently installing), or would someone consider this as a future program change?

Thanks for your time. Mike Hall

Jonathan Nieder· Jan 17, 2013, 20:17 UTC · re: Mike Hall · lore

Re: Changing Spell checker under GIT

Hi Mike,

Mike Hall wrote:

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> As my organization has change from RedHat 5 to RedHat 6 Linux,
> it appears that RedHat is trying to replace (deprecate) ispell/aspell
> with a different tool (hunspell).
>
> It appears that GIT GUI current supports changing the dictionary used
> to support spell checks.   Is there currently a way to change the
> spell check program to be used(can't find in documentation or version
> of code that I'm currently installing), or would someone consider this
> as a future program change?

git-gui uses the aspell command as a spellchecker. A patch to add hunspell support sounds like it would be a nice addition. If you'd like to work on it, then "lib/spellcheck.tcl" in

  git://repo.or.cz/git-gui

might be a good place to start.

Hope that helps, Jonathan