Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Mar 2003 13:20:09 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker |
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Steven Cole wrote: > Once you've loosed your beast upon the tree, I'd suggest that you > very carefully look through the resulting diff for inappropriate > corrections and redact the unnecessary hunks. In the spelling fixes > which I sent to Linus, I redacted hunks which didn't need fixing. For > example, Linus making fun of Sun folks' ability to spell, etc. and some > comments in French or German for which the spelling was correct in those > languages.
Good points.
> In addition to making fixes in the comments in the source, all of > Documentation should be fair game.
Yeah, but that's easy :-)
> Then you'll have to contend with the folks whose out-of-tree patches > you've borked.
That's a good argument for making the spellfix program polished enough that everyone can use it, I think. Those maintaining out-of-tree patches can run the tool on their tree, and regenerate diffs.
- Dan
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