Found by running this command:
$ git ls-files -z|xargs -0 perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt]o)\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e ' {' \
-e ' $n = ($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1);' \
-e ' ($v = $&) =~ s/\n/\\n/g;' \
-e ' print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n";' \
-e ' }'
Why not just git grep -E ...?
That wouldn't work then the doubled words are separated by a newline.
This is derived from a Makefile syntax-check rule in gnulib's maint.mk:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/top/maint.mk
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-sh-i18n--envsubst.txt | 2 +-
attr.h | 2 +-
gitweb/static/js/lib/cookies.js | 2 +-
po/README | 2 +-
4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-sh-i18n--envsubst.txt b/Documentation/git-sh-i18n--envsubst.txt
index 5c3ec32..2ffaf93 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-sh-i18n--envsubst.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-sh-i18n--envsubst.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ plumbing scripts and/or are writing new ones.
'git sh-i18n{litdd}envsubst' is Git's stripped-down copy of the GNU
`envsubst(1)` program that comes with the GNU gettext package. It's
used internally by linkgit:git-sh-i18n[1] to interpolate the variables
-passed to the the `eval_gettext` function.
+passed to the `eval_gettext` function.
No promises are made about the interface, or that this
program won't disappear without warning in the next version
diff --git a/attr.h b/attr.h
index eb8ca0d..dea590a 100644
--- a/attr.h
+++ b/attr.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ int git_check_attr(const char *path, int, struct git_attr_check *);
/*
* Retrieve all attributes that apply to the specified path. *num
- * will be set the the number of attributes on the path; **check will
+ * will be set the number of attributes on the path; **check will
* be set to point at a newly-allocated array of git_attr_check
* objects describing the attributes and their values. *check must be
* free()ed by the caller.
diff --git a/gitweb/static/js/lib/cookies.js b/gitweb/static/js/lib/cookies.js
index 72b51cd..66b9a07 100644
--- a/gitweb/static/js/lib/cookies.js
+++ b/gitweb/static/js/lib/cookies.js
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
* If a negative value is specified or a date in the past),
* the cookie will be deleted.
* If set to null or omitted, the cookie will be a session cookie
- * and will not be retained when the the browser exits.
+ * and will not be retained when the browser exits.
* @param {String} [options.path] Restrict access of a cookie to particular directory
* (default: path of page that created the cookie).
* @param {String} [options.domain] Override what web sites are allowed to access cookie
diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
index 188ea2c..c1520e8 100644
--- a/po/README
+++ b/po/README
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ used:
C:
- - Include builtin.h at the top, it'll pull in in gettext.h, which
+ - Include builtin.h at the top, it'll pull in gettext.h, which
defines the gettext interface. Consult with the list if you need to
use gettext.h directly.
--
1.7.9.3
>From e887bda34232bd3cfb63f6a65e534fa14cfa42ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:34:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] correct spelling: an URL -> a URL
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 4 ++--
Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt | 2 +-
contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt | 2 +-
http.c | 2 +-
http.h | 2 +-
perl/Git.pm | 2 +-
transport.c | 2 +-
8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index b729649..c243ee5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ commit for each submodule.
sync::
Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting
to the value specified in .gitmodules. It will only affect those
- submodules which already have an url entry in .git/config (that is the
+ submodules which already have a URL entry in .git/config (that is the
case when they are initialized or freshly added). This is useful when
submodule URLs change upstream and you need to update your local
repositories accordingly.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 4040941..4e1fd52 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ submodule.<name>.path::
be unique within the .gitmodules file.
submodule.<name>.url::
- Defines an url from where the submodule repository can be cloned.
+ Defines a URL from which the submodule repository can be cloned.
This may be either an absolute URL ready to be passed to
linkgit:git-clone[1] or (if it begins with ./ or ../) a location
relative to the superproject's origin repository.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Consider the following .gitmodules file:
This defines two submodules, `libfoo` and `libbar`. These are expected to
be checked out in the paths 'include/foo' and 'include/bar', and for both
-submodules an url is specified which can be used for cloning the submodules.
+submodules a URL is specified which can be used for cloning the submodules.
SEE ALSO
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
index 2933056..1ae8d12 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ What you want is the 'subtree' merge strategy, which helps you in such a
situation.
In this example, let's say you have the repository at `/path/to/B` (but
-it can be an URL as well, if you want). You want to merge the 'master'
+it can be a URL as well, if you want). You want to merge the 'master'
branch of that repository to the `dir-B` subdirectory in your current
branch.
diff --git a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
index 2dd27ce..1128ab2 100644
--- a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
+++ b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.
To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at
-the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command
+the end of each commit log message if passed a URL on the command
line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
The resulting repository will generally require further processing
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 8ac8eb6..f3f83d7 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ int http_get_strbuf(const char *url, struct strbuf *result, int options)
}
/*
- * Downloads an url and stores the result in the given file.
+ * Downloads a URL and stores the result in the given file.
*
* If a previous interrupted download is detected (i.e. a previous temporary
* file is still around) the download is resumed.
diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
index 0b61653..915c286 100644
--- a/http.h
+++ b/http.h
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ extern char *get_remote_object_url(const char *url, const char *hex,
#define HTTP_NOAUTH 5
/*
- * Requests an url and stores the result in a strbuf.
+ * Requests a URL and stores the result in a strbuf.
*
* If the result pointer is NULL, a HTTP HEAD request is made instead of GET.
*/
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index f7ce511..497f420 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ The hash is in the format C<refname =\> hash>. For tags, the C<refname> entry
contains the tag object while a C<refname^{}> entry gives the tagged objects.
C<REPOSITORY> has the same meaning as the appropriate C<git-ls-remote>
-argument; either an URL or a remote name (if called on a repository instance).
+argument; either a URL or a remote name (if called on a repository instance).
C<GROUPS> is an optional arrayref that can contain 'tags' to return all the
tags and/or 'heads' to return all the heads. C<REFGLOB> is an optional array
of strings containing a shell-like glob to further limit the refs returned in
diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 181f8f2..ea9dcb6 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ int transport_disconnect(struct transport *transport)
}
/*
- * Strip username (and password) from an url and return
+ * Strip username (and password) from a URL and return
* it in a newly allocated string.
*/
char *transport_anonymize_url(const char *url)
--
1.7.9.3
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