doc: various spelling fixes

Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

8 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
index 472f00f607..7da0f13a5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ For example, if we want a password for
 `https://example.com/foo.git`, we might generate the following
 credential description (don't forget the blank line at the end; it
 tells `git credential` that the application finished feeding all the
-infomation it has):
+information it has):
 
 	 protocol=https
 	 host=example.com
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt
index 58b7facb09..8cfc748ae2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ begins with `ext::`.  Examples:
 	edit .ssh/config.
 
 "ext::socat -t3600 - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/git-server %G/somerepo"::
-	Represents repository with path /somerepo accessable over
+	Represents repository with path /somerepo accessible over
 	git protocol at abstract namespace address /git-server.
 
 "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo"::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 1b8b6498cd..7706d41c87 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN.
 	patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit".
 	+
 	'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer if "no" or "quit", without
-	commiting anything to SVN.
+	committing anything to SVN.
 
 'branch'::
 	Create a branch in the SVN repository.
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ HANDLING OF SVN BRANCHES
 ------------------------
 If 'git svn' is configured to fetch branches (and --follow-branches
 is in effect), it sometimes creates multiple Git branches for one
-SVN branch, where the addtional branches have names of the form
+SVN branch, where the additional branches have names of the form
 'branchname@nnn' (with nnn an SVN revision number).  These additional
 branches are created if 'git svn' cannot find a parent commit for the
 first commit in an SVN branch, to connect the branch to the history of
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt
index ad8b823f77..78a0d955ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Others
 
    - *git.el* (contrib/)
 
-   This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modeled on
+   This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on
    pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
    tweaking to work on XEmacs.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 314e25da73..b0f72206a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ when you run `git cherry-pick`.
 +
 Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from
 the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
-While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is prefered as
+While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as
 some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
 
 '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}'::
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
index a959517b23..a6b7d83a8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Functions
 	initial, empty state.
 
 `argv_array_detach`::
-	Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transfering
+	Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transferring
 	ownership of the allocated array and strings.
 
 `argv_array_free_detached`::
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
index 516fda7412..c1b42a40d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ int foo_login(struct foo_connection *f)
 		break;
 	default:
 		/*
-		 * Some other error occured. We don't know if the
+		 * Some other error occurred. We don't know if the
 		 * credential is good or bad, so report nothing to the
 		 * credential subsystem.
 		 */
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt
index dbbea95db7..aa1c50f181 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Iteration functions
 * `head_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_ref_submodule()`,
   `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`, `for_each_tag_ref_submodule()`,
   `for_each_branch_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_remote_ref_submodule()`
-  do the same as the functions descibed above but for a specified
+  do the same as the functions described above but for a specified
   submodule.
 
 * `for_each_rawref()` can be used to learn about broken ref and symref.