[PATCH 1/2] doc: avoid using the gender of other people

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Some people have a problem with using a female reviewer or a female
developer as an example, and since this is an irrelevant detail, let's
say goodbye to our illustrative female colleagues.

Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 ++---
 Documentation/git-push.txt      | 4 ++--
 Documentation/user-manual.txt   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 55287d72e0..3e215f4d80 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -373,9 +373,8 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
 . `Acked-by:` says that the person who is more familiar with the area
   the patch attempts to modify liked the patch.
 . `Reviewed-by:`, unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the
-  reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the patch
-  is ready for application.  It is usually offered only after a
-  detailed review.
+  reviewers themselves when they are completely satisfied with the
+  patch after a detailed analysis.
 . `Tested-by:` is used to indicate that the person applied the patch
   and found it to have the desired effect.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index a953c7c387..2f25aa3a29 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published.
 You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to
 replace the history you originally published with the rebased history.
 If somebody else built on top of your original history while you are
-rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with her
-commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work.
+rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with their
+commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose their work.
 +
 This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are
 updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index f9e54b8674..96240598e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@ A fast-forward looks something like this:
 
 In some cases it is possible that the new head will *not* actually be
 a descendant of the old head.  For example, the developer may have
-realized she made a serious mistake, and decided to backtrack,
+realized a serious mistake was made and decided to backtrack,
 resulting in a situation like:
 
 ................................................
-- 
2.32.0




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