From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] doc: fix repeated words
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 02:03:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190810060351.GA25876@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76831150995dd3e7847825192b22114a6d4906d1.1565416752.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 10:59:14PM -0700, Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
>
> Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
> "git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
> where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
> one of the repeated words.
>
> There were many false positives by this grep command, including
> deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
> that" which I left alone, of course.
>
> I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
> words in old RelNotes.
Thanks. I read over each of these, and they are all obviously the right
thing to do.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-10 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-10 5:59 [PATCH 0/1] doc: fix repeated words Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget
2019-08-10 5:59 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget
2019-08-10 6:03 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-08-12 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
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