# [PATCH] doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes

5 messages from 2018-06-16 to 2018-06-19. Participants: Xtreak, Eric Sunshine, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48721

## Xtreak, 2018-06-16 18:08

Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes
Message-ID: <0102016409c877f9-58c13d7c-4d25-43e2-8d64-c13d98b88ee7-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/0102016409c877f9-58c13d7c-4d25-43e2-8d64-c13d98b88ee7-000000%40eu-west-1.amazonses.com

```
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt | 2 +-
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt   | 2 +-
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt   | 2 +-
 Documentation/diff-options.txt      | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
index e7e79d999bd38..e743a2a8e46eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.6
    references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
    contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
 
- * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
    option.
 
  * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
index d6db0e19cf17b..c2cf891f71adf 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16
    validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received
    pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the
    narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable
-   from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK.
+   from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK.
 
  * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when
    building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
index 7c59bd92fbd99..1eb13ece53600 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    after giving an error message.
    (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint).
 
- * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log
+ * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log
    --graph" output better.
    (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index f466600972f86..bfa3808e49cc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`,
 	as file creations or deletions ("new" or "gone", optionally "+l"
 	if it's a symlink) and mode changes ("+x" or "-x" for adding
 	or removing executable bit respectively) in diffstat. The
-	information is put betwen the filename part and the graph
+	information is put between the filename part and the graph
 	part. Implies `--stat`.
 
 --numstat::

--
https://github.com/git/git/pull/510

```

## Eric Sunshine, 2018-06-17 03:25

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTJMNw9JhqCQtqqU+MV7rzfy_yEQ_WuNaBdo-VVZf-9LQ@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPig%2BcTJMNw9JhqCQtqqU%2BMV7rzfy_yEQ_WuNaBdo-VVZf-9LQ%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <0102016409c877f9-58c13d7c-4d25-43e2-8d64-c13d98b88ee7-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

```
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 2:08 PM Xtreak <tir.karthi@gmail.com> wrote:
> doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes

Thanks for the patch. All the fixes look "obviously correct".

Please sign-off[1] your patch so it can be included in the project.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.8.1/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#L234-L286

```

## Eric Sunshine, 2018-06-17 03:46

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR98YaygqfPXP0Nqy1Tb2h+rBNojt+hppS+AcPwgCwmog@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPig%2BcR98YaygqfPXP0Nqy1Tb2h%2BrBNojt%2BhppS%2BAcPwgCwmog%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CAAjsFLS8tz_123B453UP_mnjzH2_3osESMPFpC+y941F7x5eiA@mail.gmail.com>

```
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:36 PM Karthikeyan <tir.karthi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 8:55 AM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>> Please sign-off[1] your patch so it can be included in the project.
>
> Thanks. I am a beginner using Gmail and I have used SubmitToGit for
> this. Is it possible to do this using SubmitToGit or should I do git
> commit --amend -s to sign off and make a force push to submit it
> again from SubmitToGit as newer one?

Amending the commit with sign-off and re-submit should work fine.
Alternately, you can reply to this email thread with your sign off
in-line, like this:

Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email>

```

## Xtreak, 2018-06-17 04:35

Subject: [PATCH v2 signed off] doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes
Message-ID: <010201640c072de4-d408b8ac-3a10-4c2f-9b65-34a9582c1839-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/010201640c072de4-d408b8ac-3a10-4c2f-9b65-34a9582c1839-000000%40eu-west-1.amazonses.com
In-Reply-To: <0102016409c877f9-58c13d7c-4d25-43e2-8d64-c13d98b88ee7-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

```
Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt | 2 +-
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt   | 2 +-
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt   | 2 +-
 Documentation/diff-options.txt      | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
index e7e79d999bd38..e743a2a8e46eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.6
    references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
    contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
 
- * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
    option.
 
  * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
index d6db0e19cf17b..c2cf891f71adf 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16
    validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received
    pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the
    narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable
-   from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK.
+   from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK.
 
  * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when
    building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
index 7c59bd92fbd99..1eb13ece53600 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    after giving an error message.
    (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint).
 
- * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log
+ * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log
    --graph" output better.
    (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index f466600972f86..bfa3808e49cc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`,
 	as file creations or deletions ("new" or "gone", optionally "+l"
 	if it's a symlink) and mode changes ("+x" or "-x" for adding
 	or removing executable bit respectively) in diffstat. The
-	information is put betwen the filename part and the graph
+	information is put between the filename part and the graph
 	part. Implies `--stat`.
 
 --numstat::

--
https://github.com/git/git/pull/510

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2018-06-19 16:02

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 signed off] doc: fix typos in documentation and release notes
Message-ID: <xmqqefh2wyq9.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqefh2wyq9.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com
In-Reply-To: <010201640c072de4-d408b8ac-3a10-4c2f-9b65-34a9582c1839-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

```
Xtreak <tir.karthi@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt   | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt   | 2 +-
>  Documentation/diff-options.txt      | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks, will apply.

>
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
> index e7e79d999bd38..e743a2a8e46eb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.6
>     references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
>     contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
>  
> - * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
> + * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
>     option.
>  
>   * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
> index d6db0e19cf17b..c2cf891f71adf 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
> @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16
>     validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received
>     pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the
>     narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable
> -   from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK.
> +   from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK.
>  
>   * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when
>     building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
> index 7c59bd92fbd99..1eb13ece53600 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.17
>     after giving an error message.
>     (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint).
>  
> - * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log
> + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log
>     --graph" output better.
>     (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint).
>  
> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
> index f466600972f86..bfa3808e49cc0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`,
>  	as file creations or deletions ("new" or "gone", optionally "+l"
>  	if it's a symlink) and mode changes ("+x" or "-x" for adding
>  	or removing executable bit respectively) in diffstat. The
> -	information is put betwen the filename part and the graph
> +	information is put between the filename part and the graph
>  	part. Implies `--stat`.
>  
>  --numstat::
>
> --
> https://github.com/git/git/pull/510

```
