Re: Some misspelling errors in the git release 2.24.0

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:07 AM Fossies Administrator
<Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> although misspelling corrections are not the most exciting issues and the
> spelling errors are rarely true code bugs but mostly contained in the
> comments and documentation parts they correction may still improve the
> overall quality of a software project a little bit.
>
> In this sense I created a code misspelling report for "git" using the
> program "codespell"
>
>   https://fossies.org/linux/misc/git-2.24.0.tar.xz/codespell.html
>
> or version independent
>
>   https://fossies.org/linux/misc/git/codespell.html

Cool, thanks for sending this report along.  The typos within the
Documentation/ subdirectory have mostly been addressed by the
en/doc-typofix branch (in next, not yet merged to master).  There are
also some false positives in this report (e.g. mmaped should not be
changed to mapped, CREAT should not be changed to CREATE, examples in
format-patch showing how to correct spelling errors need to keep their
spelling errors or it won't make sense, and perhaps some others), but
most of them look like actual spelling errors that should be
corrected.  I'll send in a patch, and mark you as the reporter of the
issues.

Elijah