From: Mark Rushakoff
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
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.
Mark Rushakoff (1):
doc: fix repeated words
Documen
I noticed a couple typos while reading through some manpages.
First was "...if it is does not..." which just contained an extraneous "is".
Then I noticed a "can not" and updated that and other occurrences in
Documentation to cannot. The glossary sentence with "can not" was
"Consequently, an obje
From: Mark Rushakoff
"Can not" suggests one has the option to not do something, whereas
"cannot" more strongly suggests something is disallowed or impossible.
Noticed "can not", mistakenly used instead of "cannot" in git help
glossary, then ran git grep 'can not' and found many other instances.
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