Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:

> Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately no automated system is perfect (see some of my comments below).
>>  I'm all for an automated system that identifies potential misspellings, but
>> I'm wary of anything that attempts to automatically correct perceived errors,
>> or that can't be overruled.  In the end a human must make the final decision.
>
> I'd actually prefer to see no patch that says "this was done with an
> automatic tool".  You can use automation on your end all you want,
> but the final result needs to be eyeballed before sending it out,
> and at that point both the credit and the blame lies on you, not any
> automated tool.
>
>>>  core.sharedRepository::
>>> -   When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made shareable between
>>> +   When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made sharable between
>>>     several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are
>>>     group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the
>>>     repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being
>>> -   group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), Git will use permissions
>>> +   group-sharable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), Git will use permissions
>>
>> "Sharable" is the North American spelling.  AFAIK git doesn't specify what
>> kind of English the documentation source files should use.  Perhaps one day
>> there'll be en_UK and en_US translations, and all the sources will be written
>> in Klingon...
>
> ;-)
>
> It often is a good idea to ask your search engine "What is X", and I
> seem to get a positive result for "what is shareable" just fine.

Here is what I salvaged for 'maint'.  Eyeballing by others is very
much appreciated.

-- >8 --
From: Ondřej Bílka <nel...@seznam.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] many small typofixes
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:18:21 +0200

Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <nel...@seznam.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/howto/new-command.txt              | 2 +-
 Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt | 2 +-
 builtin/fast-export.c                            | 2 +-
 builtin/push.c                                   | 2 +-
 cache.h                                          | 2 +-
 combine-diff.c                                   | 2 +-
 contrib/ciabot/ciabot.py                         | 2 +-
 contrib/ciabot/ciabot.sh                         | 4 ++--
 contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt                  | 2 +-
 git-mergetool--lib.sh                            | 2 +-
 git-p4.py                                        | 2 +-
 notes.h                                          | 2 +-
 read-cache.c                                     | 4 ++--
 t/gitweb-lib.sh                                  | 2 +-
 t/lib-t6000.sh                                   | 2 +-
 t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh                     | 2 +-
 t/t9020-remote-svn.sh                            | 2 +-
 t/t9112-git-svn-md5less-file.sh                  | 2 +-
 t/t9802-git-p4-filetype.sh                       | 2 +-
 transport-helper.c                               | 4 ++--
 20 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt 
b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt
index 2abc3a0..d7de5a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ your language, document it in the INSTALL file.
 6. There is a file command-list.txt in the distribution main directory
 that categorizes commands by type, so they can be listed in appropriate
 subsections in the documentation's summary command list.  Add an entry
-for yours.  To understand the categories, look at git-cmmands.txt
+for yours.  To understand the categories, look at git-commands.txt
 in the main directory.
 
 7. Give the maintainer one paragraph to include in the RelNotes file
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt 
b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
index b7d0d9a..55b878a 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function.
 `reset_revision_walk`::
 
        Reset the flags used by the revision walking api. You can use
-       this to do multiple sequencial revision walks.
+       this to do multiple sequential revision walks.
 
 Data structures
 ---------------
diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
index d60d675..0c8d250 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static void handle_tag(const char *name, struct tag *tag)
        int tagged_mark;
        struct commit *p;
 
-       /* Trees have no identifer in fast-export output, thus we have no way
+       /* Trees have no identifier in fast-export output, thus we have no way
         * to output tags of trees, tags of tags of trees, etc.  Simply omit
         * such tags.
         */
diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c
index 2d84d10..795197a 100644
--- a/builtin/push.c
+++ b/builtin/push.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static NORETURN int die_push_simple(struct branch *branch, 
struct remote *remote
        if (!short_upstream)
                short_upstream = branch->merge[0]->src;
        /*
-        * Don't show advice for people who explicitely set
+        * Don't show advice for people who explicitly set
         * push.default.
         */
        if (push_default == PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED)
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 94ca1ac..5794479 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ extern void *read_blob_data_from_index(struct index_state 
*, const char *, unsig
 extern int ie_match_stat(const struct index_state *, struct cache_entry *, 
struct stat *, unsigned int);
 extern int ie_modified(const struct index_state *, struct cache_entry *, 
struct stat *, unsigned int);
 
-#define PATHSPEC_ONESTAR 1     /* the pathspec pattern sastisfies GFNM_ONESTAR 
*/
+#define PATHSPEC_ONESTAR 1     /* the pathspec pattern satisfies GFNM_ONESTAR 
*/
 
 struct pathspec {
        const char **raw; /* get_pathspec() result, not freed by 
free_pathspec() */
diff --git a/combine-diff.c b/combine-diff.c
index 6dc0609..88525b3 100644
--- a/combine-diff.c
+++ b/combine-diff.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static struct lline *coalesce_lines(struct lline *base, int 
*lenbase,
 
        /*
         * Coalesce new lines into base by finding the LCS
-        * - Create the table to run dynamic programing
+        * - Create the table to run dynamic programming
         * - Compute the LCS
         * - Then reverse read the direction structure:
         *   - If we have MATCH, assign parent to base flag, and consume
diff --git a/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.py b/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.py
index 36b5665..befa0c3 100755
--- a/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.py
+++ b/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ tinyifier = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=";
 
 # The template used to generate the XML messages to CIA.  You can make
 # visible changes to the IRC-bot notification lines by hacking this.
-# The default will produce a notfication line that looks like this:
+# The default will produce a notification line that looks like this:
 #
 # ${project}: ${author} ${repo}:${branch} * ${rev} ${files}: ${logmsg} ${url}
 #
diff --git a/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.sh b/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.sh
index 3fbbc53..dfb71a1 100755
--- a/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.sh
+++ b/contrib/ciabot/ciabot.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #       done
 #
 # The reason for the tac call is that git rev-list emits commits from
-# most recent to least - better to ship notifactions from oldest to newest.
+# most recent to least - better to ship notifications from oldest to newest.
 #
 # Configuration variables affecting this script:
 #
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 # down. It is unknown whether this is still an issue in 2010, but
 # XML-RPC would be annoying to do from sh in any case. (XML-RPC does
 # have the advantage that it guarantees notification of multiple commits
-# shpped from an update in their actual order.)
+# shipped from an update in their actual order.)
 #
 
 # The project as known to CIA. You can set this with a -p option,
diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt
index 7ba853e..e0957ee 100644
--- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt
+++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ git-extensions repository in ~/git-extensions/:
 name
 
 You can omit the --squash flag, but doing so will increase the number
-of commits that are incldued in your local repository.
+of commits that are included in your local repository.
 
 We now have a ~/git-extensions/git-subtree directory containing code
 from the master branch of git://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.git
diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
index e338be5..7e5c525 100644
--- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ valid_tool () {
 setup_tool () {
        tool="$1"
 
-       # Fallback definitions, to be overriden by tools.
+       # Fallback definitions, to be overridden by tools.
        can_merge () {
                return 0
        }
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 88fcf23..31e71ff 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -1786,7 +1786,7 @@ class P4Submit(Command, P4UserMap):
             missingGitTags = gitTags - p4Labels
             self.exportGitTags(missingGitTags)
 
-        # exit with error unless everything applied perfecly
+        # exit with error unless everything applied perfectly
         if len(commits) != len(applied):
                 sys.exit(1)
 
diff --git a/notes.h b/notes.h
index 3324c48..2a3f923 100644
--- a/notes.h
+++ b/notes.h
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ const char *default_notes_ref(void);
  * variable is used, and if that is missing, the default notes ref is used
  * ("refs/notes/commits").
  *
- * If you need to re-intialize a notes_tree structure (e.g. when switching from
+ * If you need to re-initialize a notes_tree structure (e.g. when switching 
from
  * one notes ref to another), you must first de-initialize the notes_tree
  * structure by calling free_notes(struct notes_tree *).
  *
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index d97e3bf..fe7da6c 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ int remove_index_entry_at(struct index_state *istate, int 
pos)
 }
 
 /*
- * Remove all cache ententries marked for removal, that is where
+ * Remove all cache entries marked for removal, that is where
  * CE_REMOVE is set in ce_flags.  This is much more effective than
  * calling remove_index_entry_at() for each entry to be removed.
  */
@@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ static int has_racy_timestamp(struct index_state *istate)
 }
 
 /*
- * Opportunisticly update the index but do not complain if we can't
+ * Opportunistically update the index but do not complain if we can't
  */
 void update_index_if_able(struct index_state *istate, struct lock_file 
*lockfile)
 {
diff --git a/t/gitweb-lib.sh b/t/gitweb-lib.sh
index ae2dc46..9e381e0 100644
--- a/t/gitweb-lib.sh
+++ b/t/gitweb-lib.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ EOF
 
        # You can set the GITWEB_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to
        # the gitwebdir (the directory where gitweb is installed / deployed to)
-       # of an existing gitweb instalation to test that installation,
+       # of an existing gitweb installation to test that installation,
        # or simply to pathname of installed gitweb script.
        if test -n "$GITWEB_TEST_INSTALLED" ; then
                if test -d $GITWEB_TEST_INSTALLED; then
diff --git a/t/lib-t6000.sh b/t/lib-t6000.sh
index ea25dd8..4a397e6 100644
--- a/t/lib-t6000.sh
+++ b/t/lib-t6000.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ save_tag()
        mv sed.script.tmp sed.script
 }
 
-# Replace unhelpful sha1 hashses with their symbolic equivalents
+# Replace unhelpful sha1 hashes with their symbolic equivalents
 entag()
 {
        sed -f sed.script
diff --git a/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh b/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
index 25dac79..830a4c3 100755
--- a/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
+++ b/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup conflicted merge' '
 '
 
 # First do the merge with resolve and recursive then verify that
-# recusive is chosen.
+# recursive is chosen.
 
 test_expect_success 'merge picks up the best result' '
        git config --unset-all pull.twohead &&
diff --git a/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh b/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh
index d9f6b73..4d81ba1 100755
--- a/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh
+++ b/t/t9020-remote-svn.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ init_git () {
        rm -fr .git &&
        git init &&
        #git remote add svnsim 
testsvn::sim:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9020/example.svnrdump
-       # let's reuse an exisiting dump file!?
+       # let's reuse an existing dump file!?
        git remote add svnsim testsvn::sim://$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9154/svn.dump
        git remote add svnfile testsvn::file://$TEST_DIRECTORY/t9154/svn.dump
 }
diff --git a/t/t9112-git-svn-md5less-file.sh b/t/t9112-git-svn-md5less-file.sh
index a61d671..9861c71 100755
--- a/t/t9112-git-svn-md5less-file.sh
+++ b/t/t9112-git-svn-md5less-file.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ test_description='test that git handles an svn repository with 
missing md5sums'
 # Loading a node from a svn dumpfile without a Text-Content-Length
 # field causes svn to neglect to store or report an md5sum.  (it will
 # calculate one if you had put Text-Content-Length: 0).  This showed
-# up in a repository creted with cvs2svn.
+# up in a repository created with cvs2svn.
 
 cat > dumpfile.svn <<EOF
 SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 1
diff --git a/t/t9802-git-p4-filetype.sh b/t/t9802-git-p4-filetype.sh
index eeefa67..87f4968 100755
--- a/t/t9802-git-p4-filetype.sh
+++ b/t/t9802-git-p4-filetype.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ test_expect_success 'p4 client newlines, unix' '
                test_cmp f-unix-orig f-unix &&
 
                # make sure stored in repo as unix newlines
-               # use sed to eat python-appened newline
+               # use sed to eat python-appended newline
                p4 -G print //depot/f-unix | marshal_dump data 2 |\
                    sed \$d >f-unix-p4-print &&
                test_cmp f-unix-orig f-unix-p4-print &&
diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
index 522d791..2ba3012 100644
--- a/transport-helper.c
+++ b/transport-helper.c
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ static void *udt_copy_task_routine(void *udt)
 #ifndef NO_PTHREADS
 
 /*
- * Join thread, with apporiate errors on failure. Name is name for the
+ * Join thread, with appropriate errors on failure. Name is name for the
  * thread (for error messages). Returns 0 on success, 1 on failure.
  */
 static int tloop_join(pthread_t thread, const char *name)
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static void udt_kill_transfer(struct 
unidirectional_transfer *t)
 }
 
 /*
- * Join process, with apporiate errors on failure. Name is name for the
+ * Join process, with appropriate errors on failure. Name is name for the
  * process (for error messages). Returns 0 on success, 1 on failure.
  */
 static int tloop_join(pid_t pid, const char *name)
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