linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Fix typo in comment

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:52:22 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Fix typo in comment



On 7/25/22 06:57, 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:
>>> On 07/21/22 at 11:40am, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> On 7/21/22 11:36, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>>>> "Slark Xiao" <slark_xiao@....com> writes:
>>>>>> May I know the maintainer of one subsystem could merge the changes
>>>>>> contains lots of subsystem?  I also know this could be filtered by
>>>>>> grep and sed command, but that patch would have dozens of maintainers
>>>>>> and reviewers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Certainly I don't think I can merge a patch touching 166 files across
>>>>> the tree.  This will need to be broken down by subsystem, and you may
>>>>> well find that there are some maintainers who don't want to deal with
>>>>> this type of minor fix.
>>>>
>>>> We have also seen cases where "the the" should be replaced by "then the"
>>>> or some other pair of words, so some of these changes could fall into
>>>> that category.
>>>
>>> It's possible. I searched in Documentation and went through each place,
>>> seems no typo of "then the". Below patch should clean up all the 'the the'
>>> typo under Documentation.
>> []
>>> 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.

Yeah, the script that I posted last year (?) does that, but it's noisy --
results need to be hand-checked.

It's not clear how people are finding these repeated words, other than
something like
$ grep "the the" *


-- 
~Randy