Merge branch 'ds/gender-neutral-doc'
Update the documentation not to assume users are of certain gender
and adds to guidelines to do so.
* ds/gender-neutral-doc:
*: fix typos
comments: avoid using the gender of our users
doc: avoid using the gender of other people
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 55287d7..3e215f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -373,9 +373,8 @@
. `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 a953c7c..2f25aa3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@
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 f9e54b8..9624059 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@
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:
................................................
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 8ea55a4..143f472 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@
/*
* 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.c b/config.c
index c4dcb40..f33abea 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@
begin = store->parsed[i].begin;
/*
- * Next, make sure that we are removing he last key(s) in the section,
+ * Next, make sure that we are removing the last key(s) in the section,
* and that there are no comments that are possibly about the current
* section.
*/
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 9038538..a2200f3 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -450,8 +450,8 @@
/**
* 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 f9ea807..c55ea47 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@
/*
* 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 fceebb8..2341dc9 100644
--- a/pathspec.h
+++ b/pathspec.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
*
* 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 223ee20..a86dcaa 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -337,8 +337,8 @@
* 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/t/t9300-fast-import.sh b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
index 1aea943..aa55b41 100755
--- a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
+++ b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
@@ -1538,7 +1538,6 @@
commit refs/heads/O1
# -- ignore all of this text
committer $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> $GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
- # $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME has inserted here for his benefit.
data <<COMMIT
dirty directory copy
COMMIT
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index b5a3e1c..c0dbf96 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@
* 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");
