On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 09:57 -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 06:52:15AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-07-22 at 07:45 +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > The fix is done with below command:
> > > sed -i "s/the the /the /g" `git grep -l "the the " Documentation`
> >
> > This command misses entries at EOL:
> >
> > Documentation/trace/histogram.rst: Here's an example where we use a compound key composed of the the
> >
> > Perhaps a better conversion would be 's/\bthe the\b/the/g'
>
> It would be good to check for instances that cross newlines as well;
> i.e. "the" at the end of a line followed by "the" at the start of the
> next line. However, this would require some thought to properly account
> for comment blocks ("*") and other similar prefixes that should be
> ignored.
checkpatch already attempts that duplicated word across a newline test.
