Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Fix typo in comment | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:12:51 -0700 |
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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.
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