[PATCH 1/*] Fix common typos.

[Marc Glisse]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Ondøej Bílka wrote:

> This is series of typo fixing patches. They are generated with stylepp
> https://github.com/neleai/stylepp
> which makes patch generation very effective.
>
> This series should be applied in sequence to avoid reviewing duplicates.
>
> Now I exclude those directories that are upstream, see file
> https://github.com/neleai/stylepp/blob/master/maintained/gcc/ignore
> and if you want ignore additional files/directories add them to this
> file.
>
> Now for patch itself, situation is following:
> I extracted 4214 common corrections from wikipedia, in following list:
> https://github.com/neleai/stylepp/blob/master/maintained/dictionary_wiki
> I plan to add another replacements that we will frequently encounter.
>
> There is possibility to generate this list automatically from commit
> history, If we look when in comment commit changes word but not two
> adjacent words and aspell list says that changed word went from wrong to
> correct it is  likely a typo fix. We could extract these
> replacement pairs and use them. I would gladly welcome somebody to
> volunteer to write this analysis.
>
> Then I ran script/stylepp_fix_spell which produced following 300kb patch:
>
> http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/0001-Fix-common-typos.patch

There are still some wrong fixes, humans really need to check each of 
them (for instance throught -> thought instead of through). I think I saw 
a few overlong lines (more than 80 chars on a line, counting a tab as 8) 
after replacement. I don't know if capitalizing all instances of "ok" is 
really worth it...

-- 
Marc Glisse