From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
We generally avoid specifying the gender of our users in order to be
more inclusive, but sometimes a few slip by due to habit.
Since by doing a little bit of rewording we can avoid this irrelevant
detail, let's do so.
Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
commit.c | 2 +-
config.h | 4 ++--
date.c | 2 +-
pathspec.h | 2 +-
strbuf.h | 4 ++--
wt-status.c | 2 +-
6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 8ea55a447fa9..143f472c0f24 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ static void handle_signed_tag(struct commit *parent, struct commit_extra_header
/*
* We could verify this signature and either omit the tag when
* it does not validate, but the integrator may not have the
- * public key of the signer of the tag he is merging, while a
+ * public key of the signer of the tag being merged, while a
* later auditor may have it while auditing, so let's not run
* verify-signed-buffer here for now...
*
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 9038538ffdcb..a2200f311156 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -450,8 +450,8 @@ void git_configset_init(struct config_set *cs);
/**
* Parses the file and adds the variable-value pairs to the `config_set`,
* dies if there is an error in parsing the file. Returns 0 on success, or
- * -1 if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. The user has to decide
- * if he wants to free the incomplete configset or continue using it when
+ * -1 if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. The caller decides
+ * whether to free the incomplete configset or continue using it when
* the function returns -1.
*/
int git_configset_add_file(struct config_set *cs, const char *filename);
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index f9ea807b3a9f..c55ea47e96ad 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ int parse_expiry_date(const char *date, timestamp_t *timestamp)
/*
* We take over "now" here, which usually translates
* to the current timestamp. This is because the user
- * really means to expire everything she has done in
+ * really means to expire everything that was done in
* the past, and by definition reflogs are the record
* of the past, and there is nothing from the future
* to be kept.
diff --git a/pathspec.h b/pathspec.h
index fceebb876f7a..2341dc990102 100644
--- a/pathspec.h
+++ b/pathspec.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ struct pathspec {
*
* A similar process is applied when a new pathspec magic is added. The designer
* lifts the GUARD_PATHSPEC restriction in the functions that support the new
- * magic. At the same time (s)he has to make sure this new feature will be
+ * magic while at the same time making sure this new feature will be
* caught at parse_pathspec() in commands that cannot handle the new magic in
* some cases. grepping parse_pathspec() should help.
*/
diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index 223ee2094af8..a86dcaaf44d1 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -337,8 +337,8 @@ const char *strbuf_join_argv(struct strbuf *buf, int argc,
* placeholder is unknown, then the percent sign is copied, too.
*
* In order to facilitate caching and to make it possible to give
- * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context pointer,
- * which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
+ * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context
+ * pointer with any kind of data.
*/
typedef size_t (*expand_fn_t) (struct strbuf *sb,
const char *placeholder,
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 42b673571696..ebc0c0da1a84 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ static void wt_status_collect_changes_index(struct wt_status *s)
* mode by passing a command line option we do not ignore any
* changed submodule SHA-1s when comparing index and HEAD, no
* matter what is configured. Otherwise the user won't be
- * shown any submodules she manually added (and which are
+ * shown any submodules manually added (and which are
* staged to be committed), which would be really confusing.
*/
handle_ignore_submodules_arg(&rev.diffopt, "dirty");
--
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