Re: Some misspelling errors in the git release 2.24.0

[Fossies Administrator <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>]

Hi Elijah,

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Elijah Newren wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 3:08 AM Fossies Administrator
> <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Elijah,
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 8:14 AM Fossies Administrator <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Elijah,
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:07 AM Fossies Administrator
>>>>> <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> wrote:
>
>>> So, I used your codespell program
>>
>> That seems to be a misunderstanding: I'm not the author of the codespell
>> program but I only use that program to detect spelling errors and point to
>> their existence while offering the option to inspect the context of the
>> probably misspelled words in a fast and comfortable way via a Web page.
>
> Oops, sorry for the misunderstanding; thanks for clearing it up.
>
> [...]
>> Some of the according FPs are excluded by Fossies generally, some other
>> obvious FPs are excluded by Fossies specifically for each FOSS project
>> (see always the bold item "Codespell configuration" with a link to
>> "Project-specific additions" or to "(no project-specific adaptions yet
>> done)" that shows all the excluded words and directories/files).
> [...]
>> As one can see on the page
>>
>>   https://fossies.org/linux/misc/git-2.24.0.tar.xz/codespell_conf_info.html
>>
>> there are already done some according attempts.
>
> Ah, thanks for the pointer.  Could you add t/t9150/svk-merge.dump and
> t/t9151/svn-mergeinfo.dump the the list of files to exclude?  Both
> have the 'hapenning' typo, but both are a dump of some repository and
> editing it means recomputing sha1sums and whatnot for tests that just
> isn't worth it.

Sure, done.

Principally test directories and files seem to be a "special" area
also for spelling checks.

> I thought maybe I could get away with correcting
> those spelling errors but backed out once I saw further knock-on
> effects.

That is one reason that only the developers should made such corrections.

> Thanks for the report and the background and corrections!

Regards

Jens

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