summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-name-rev.txt2
-rw-r--r--blame.c20
-rw-r--r--builtin-apply.c4
-rw-r--r--builtin-diff.c2
-rw-r--r--builtin-grep.c2
-rw-r--r--builtin-help.c2
-rw-r--r--builtin-push.c2
-rw-r--r--builtin-rm.c2
-rw-r--r--combine-diff.c2
-rw-r--r--compat/subprocess.py6
-rwxr-xr-xcontrib/colordiff/colordiff.perl2
-rw-r--r--diff-delta.c6
-rw-r--r--fetch-clone.c4
-rwxr-xr-xgit-am.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-applypatch.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-archimport.perl8
-rwxr-xr-xgit-commit.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-cvsexportcommit.perl4
-rwxr-xr-xgit-instaweb.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-merge-one-file.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-merge-recursive.py2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-push.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-quiltimport.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-send-email.perl2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-svn.perl2
-rw-r--r--name-rev.c2
-rw-r--r--pack-objects.c4
-rw-r--r--ppc/sha1ppc.S2
-rw-r--r--sha1_file.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t5700-clone-reference.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t5710-info-alternate.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t6002-rev-list-bisect.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t6021-merge-criss-cross.sh2
-rw-r--r--xdiff/xdiffi.c6
34 files changed, 56 insertions, 56 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
index 39a1434a0e..43f8c2593d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS
List all commits reachable from all refs
--stdin::
- Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of name'able
+ Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable
commits, and pass to stdout
EXAMPLE
diff --git a/blame.c b/blame.c
index c86e2fd4b3..0a06026168 100644
--- a/blame.c
+++ b/blame.c
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@
#define DEBUG 0
static const char blame_usage[] = "[-c] [-l] [-t] [-S <revs-file>] [--] file [commit]\n"
- " -c, --compability Use the same output mode as git-annotate (Default: off)\n"
- " -l, --long Show long commit SHA1 (Default: off)\n"
- " -t, --time Show raw timestamp (Default: off)\n"
- " -S, --revs-file Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling git-rev-list\n"
- " -h, --help This message";
+ " -c, --compatibility Use the same output mode as git-annotate (Default: off)\n"
+ " -l, --long Show long commit SHA1 (Default: off)\n"
+ " -t, --time Show raw timestamp (Default: off)\n"
+ " -S, --revs-file Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling git-rev-list\n"
+ " -h, --help This message";
static struct commit **blame_lines;
static int num_blame_lines;
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
const char *filename = NULL, *commit = NULL;
char filename_buf[256];
int sha1_len = 8;
- int compability = 0;
+ int compatibility = 0;
int show_raw_time = 0;
int options = 1;
struct commit* start_commit;
@@ -774,8 +774,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
sha1_len = 40;
continue;
} else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-c") ||
- !strcmp(argv[i], "--compability")) {
- compability = 1;
+ !strcmp(argv[i], "--compatibility")) {
+ compatibility = 1;
continue;
} else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-t") ||
!strcmp(argv[i], "--time")) {
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
} else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-S")) {
if (i + 1 < argc &&
!read_ancestry(argv[i + 1], &sha1_p)) {
- compability = 1;
+ compatibility = 1;
i++;
continue;
}
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
u = c->util;
get_commit_info(c, &ci);
fwrite(sha1_to_hex(c->object.sha1), sha1_len, 1, stdout);
- if(compability) {
+ if(compatibility) {
printf("\t(%10s\t%10s\t%d)", ci.author,
format_time(ci.author_time, ci.author_tz,
show_raw_time),
diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index c3af48917c..1e5b846dd3 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ static int find_header(char *line, unsigned long size, int *hdrsize, struct patc
continue;
/*
- * Make sure we don't find any unconnected patch fragmants.
+ * Make sure we don't find any unconnected patch fragments.
* That's a sign that we didn't find a header, and that a
* patch has become corrupted/broken up.
*/
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ static int parse_binary(char *buffer, unsigned long size, struct patch *patch)
* so one line can fit up to 13 groups that would decode
* to 52 bytes max. The length byte 'A'-'Z' corresponds
* to 1-26 bytes, and 'a'-'z' corresponds to 27-52 bytes.
- * The end of binary is signalled with an empty line.
+ * The end of binary is signaled with an empty line.
*/
int llen, used;
struct fragment *fragment;
diff --git a/builtin-diff.c b/builtin-diff.c
index 1df531ba28..ae901dd25e 100644
--- a/builtin-diff.c
+++ b/builtin-diff.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static int builtin_diff_tree(struct rev_info *revs,
usage(builtin_diff_usage);
/* We saw two trees, ent[0] and ent[1].
- * if ent[1] is unintesting, they are swapped
+ * if ent[1] is uninteresting, they are swapped
*/
if (ent[1].item->flags & UNINTERESTING)
swap = 1;
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 743ca8c692..4c2f7dfe03 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, char **envp)
* pattern, but then what follows it must be zero or more
* valid refs up to the -- (if exists), and then existing
* paths. If there is an explicit pattern, then the first
- * unrecocnized non option is the beginning of the refs list
+ * unrecognized non option is the beginning of the refs list
* that continues up to the -- (if exists), and then paths.
*/
diff --git a/builtin-help.c b/builtin-help.c
index 7470faa566..335fe5fedc 100644
--- a/builtin-help.c
+++ b/builtin-help.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
static const char git_usage[] =
"Usage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--help] COMMAND [ ARGS ]";
-/* most gui terms set COLUMNS (although some don't export it) */
+/* most GUI terminals set COLUMNS (although some don't export it) */
static int term_columns(void)
{
char *col_string = getenv("COLUMNS");
diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c
index 66b9407822..a8fac886f1 100644
--- a/builtin-push.c
+++ b/builtin-push.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static int get_remotes_uri(const char *repo, const char *uri[MAX_URI])
if (n < MAX_URI)
uri[n++] = strdup(s);
else
- error("more than %d URL's specified, ignoreing the rest", MAX_URI);
+ error("more than %d URL's specified, ignoring the rest", MAX_URI);
}
else if (is_refspec && !has_explicit_refspec)
add_refspec(strdup(s));
diff --git a/builtin-rm.c b/builtin-rm.c
index 875d8252fa..5deb811719 100644
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, char **envp)
* workspace. If we fail to remove the first one, we
* abort the "git rm" (but once we've successfully removed
* any file at all, we'll go ahead and commit to it all:
- * by then we've already committed ourself and can't fail
+ * by then we've already committed ourselves and can't fail
* in the middle)
*/
if (force) {
diff --git a/combine-diff.c b/combine-diff.c
index caffb926ea..1bc1484645 100644
--- a/combine-diff.c
+++ b/combine-diff.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static int give_context(struct sline *sline, unsigned long cnt, int num_parent)
unsigned long i;
/* Two groups of interesting lines may have a short gap of
- * unintersting lines. Connect such groups to give them a
+ * uninteresting lines. Connect such groups to give them a
* bit of context.
*
* We first start from what the interesting() function says,
diff --git a/compat/subprocess.py b/compat/subprocess.py
index bbd26c7b0e..6474eab119 100644
--- a/compat/subprocess.py
+++ b/compat/subprocess.py
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ class Popen(object):
# Windows methods
#
def _get_handles(self, stdin, stdout, stderr):
- """Construct and return tupel with IO objects:
+ """Construct and return tuple with IO objects:
p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite
"""
if stdin == None and stdout == None and stderr == None:
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ class Popen(object):
def _find_w9xpopen(self):
- """Find and return absolut path to w9xpopen.exe"""
+ """Find and return absolute path to w9xpopen.exe"""
w9xpopen = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(GetModuleFileName(0)),
"w9xpopen.exe")
if not os.path.exists(w9xpopen):
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ class Popen(object):
# POSIX methods
#
def _get_handles(self, stdin, stdout, stderr):
- """Construct and return tupel with IO objects:
+ """Construct and return tuple with IO objects:
p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite
"""
p2cread, p2cwrite = None, None
diff --git a/contrib/colordiff/colordiff.perl b/contrib/colordiff/colordiff.perl
index 5789cfb265..9566a765ef 100755
--- a/contrib/colordiff/colordiff.perl
+++ b/contrib/colordiff/colordiff.perl
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ foreach $config_file (@config_files) {
}
}
-# colordiff specfic options here. Need to pre-declare if using variables
+# colordiff specific options here. Need to pre-declare if using variables
GetOptions(
"no-banner" => sub { $show_banner = 0 },
"plain-text=s" => \&set_color,
diff --git a/diff-delta.c b/diff-delta.c
index 8b9172aa2e..7da9205a5d 100644
--- a/diff-delta.c
+++ b/diff-delta.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ struct delta_index * create_delta_index(const void *buf, unsigned long bufsize)
return NULL;
/* Determine index hash size. Note that indexing skips the
- first byte to allow for optimizing the rabin polynomial
+ first byte to allow for optimizing the Rabin's polynomial
initialization in create_delta(). */
entries = (bufsize - 1) / RABIN_WINDOW;
hsize = entries / 4;
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ struct delta_index * create_delta_index(const void *buf, unsigned long bufsize)
/*
* Determine a limit on the number of entries in the same hash
- * bucket. This guard us against patological data sets causing
+ * bucket. This guards us against pathological data sets causing
* really bad hash distribution with most entries in the same hash
* bucket that would bring us to O(m*n) computing costs (m and n
* corresponding to reference and target buffer sizes).
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ void free_delta_index(struct delta_index *index)
/*
* The maximum size for any opcode sequence, including the initial header
- * plus rabin window plus biggest copy.
+ * plus Rabin window plus biggest copy.
*/
#define MAX_OP_SIZE (5 + 5 + 1 + RABIN_WINDOW + 7)
diff --git a/fetch-clone.c b/fetch-clone.c
index c16b0c481b..81d1371296 100644
--- a/fetch-clone.c
+++ b/fetch-clone.c
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ int receive_unpack_pack(int xd[2], const char *me, int quiet, int sideband)
/*
* A "binary msec" is a power-of-two-msec, aka 1/1024th of a second.
- * Keeing the time in that format means that "bytes / msecs" means
- * is the same as kB/s (modulo rounding).
+ * Keeping the time in that format means that "bytes / msecs" means
+ * the same as kB/s (modulo rounding).
*
* 1000512 is a magic number (usecs in a second, rounded up by half
* of 1024, to make "rounding" come out right ;)
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 679045a540..db9a20a811 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ fall_back_3way () {
# This is not so wrong. Depending on which base we picked,
# orig_tree may be wildly different from ours, but his_tree
# has the same set of wildly different changes in parts the
- # patch did not touch, so resolve ends up cancelling them,
+ # patch did not touch, so resolve ends up canceling them,
# saying that we reverted all those changes.
git-merge-resolve $orig_tree -- HEAD $his_tree || {
diff --git a/git-applypatch.sh b/git-applypatch.sh
index e4b09472e1..8df2aee4c2 100755
--- a/git-applypatch.sh
+++ b/git-applypatch.sh
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ git-apply --index "$PATCHFILE" || {
# This is not so wrong. Depending on which base we picked,
# orig_tree may be wildly different from ours, but his_tree
# has the same set of wildly different changes in parts the
- # patch did not touch, so resolve ends up cancelling them,
+ # patch did not touch, so resolve ends up canceling them,
# saying that we reverted all those changes.
if git-merge-resolve $orig_tree -- HEAD $his_tree
diff --git a/git-archimport.perl b/git-archimport.perl
index 740bc1fd52..ada60ec240 100755
--- a/git-archimport.perl
+++ b/git-archimport.perl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It will follow branches
and repositories within the namespaces defined by the <archive/branch>
-parameters suppplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
+parameters supplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it
as a merge whenever possible.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ usage if $opt_h;
# $arch_branches:
# values associated with keys:
# =1 - Arch version / git 'branch' detected via abrowse on a limit
-# >1 - Arch version / git 'branch' of an auxilliary branch we've merged
+# >1 - Arch version / git 'branch' of an auxiliary branch we've merged
my %arch_branches = map { $_ => 1 } @ARGV;
$ENV{'TMPDIR'} = $opt_t if $opt_t; # $ENV{TMPDIR} will affect tempdir() calls:
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ sub apply_cset {
if (`find $tmp/changeset/patches -type f -name '*.patch'`) {
# this can be sped up considerably by doing
# (find | xargs cat) | patch
- # but that cna get mucked up by patches
+ # but that can get mucked up by patches
# with missing trailing newlines or the standard
# 'missing newline' flag in the patch - possibly
# produced with an old/buggy diff.
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ sub commitid2pset {
}
-# an alterative to `command` that allows input to be passed as an array
+# an alternative to `command` that allows input to be passed as an array
# to work around shell problems with weird characters in arguments
sub safe_pipe_capture {
my @output;
diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
index 08d786db2f..351d13cb1e 100755
--- a/git-commit.sh
+++ b/git-commit.sh
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ then
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=`expr "z$force_author" : '.*\(<.*\)'` &&
test '' != "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" &&
test '' != "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" ||
- die "malformatted --author parameter"
+ die "malformed --author parameter"
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
elif test '' != "$use_commit"
then
diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
index 5dcb2f9a8e..5d13a54194 100755
--- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
+++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ my @bfiles = grep(m/^Binary/, safe_pipe_capture('git-diff-tree', '-p', $parent,
@bfiles = map { chomp } @bfiles;
foreach my $f (@bfiles) {
# check that the file in cvs matches the "old" file
- # extract the file to $tmpdir and comparre with cmp
+ # extract the file to $tmpdir and compare with cmp
my $tree = safe_pipe_capture('git-rev-parse', "$parent^{tree}");
chomp $tree;
my $blob = `git-ls-tree $tree "$f" | cut -f 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3`;
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ sub cleanupcvs {
}
}
-# An alterative to `command` that allows input to be passed as an array
+# An alternative to `command` that allows input to be passed as an array
# to work around shell problems with weird characters in arguments
# if the exec returns non-zero we die
sub safe_pipe_capture {
diff --git a/git-instaweb.sh b/git-instaweb.sh
index 69aef3c20b..63b18b99f6 100755
--- a/git-instaweb.sh
+++ b/git-instaweb.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ conf=$GIT_DIR/gitweb/httpd.conf
# Defaults:
-# if installed, it doens't need further configuration (module_path)
+# if installed, it doesn't need further configuration (module_path)
test -z "$httpd" && httpd='lighttpd -f'
# probably the most popular browser among gitweb users
diff --git a/git-merge-one-file.sh b/git-merge-one-file.sh
index 5619409f1c..fba4b0cb5f 100755
--- a/git-merge-one-file.sh
+++ b/git-merge-one-file.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
# $2 - file in branch1 SHA1 (or empty)
# $3 - file in branch2 SHA1 (or empty)
# $4 - pathname in repository
-# $5 - orignal file mode (or empty)
+# $5 - original file mode (or empty)
# $6 - file in branch1 mode (or empty)
# $7 - file in branch2 mode (or empty)
#
diff --git a/git-merge-recursive.py b/git-merge-recursive.py
index ce8a31fda0..4039435ce4 100755
--- a/git-merge-recursive.py
+++ b/git-merge-recursive.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ cacheOnly = False
def merge(h1, h2, branch1Name, branch2Name, graph, callDepth=0, ancestor=None):
'''Merge the commits h1 and h2, return the resulting virtual
- commit object and a flag indicating the cleaness of the merge.'''
+ commit object and a flag indicating the cleanness of the merge.'''
assert(isinstance(h1, Commit) and isinstance(h2, Commit))
global outputIndent
diff --git a/git-push.sh b/git-push.sh
index f10cadbf15..21775fc21a 100755
--- a/git-push.sh
+++ b/git-push.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ esac
shift ;# away the initial 'x'
# $# is now 0 if there was no explicit refspec on the command line
-# and there was no defalt refspec to push from remotes/ file.
+# and there was no default refspec to push from remotes/ file.
# we will let git-send-pack to do its "matching refs" thing.
case "$remote" in
diff --git a/git-quiltimport.sh b/git-quiltimport.sh
index 86b51abd21..364baff806 100755
--- a/git-quiltimport.sh
+++ b/git-quiltimport.sh
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ if [ -n "$quilt_author" ] ; then
quilt_author_email=$(expr "z$quilt_author" : '.*<\([^>]*\)') &&
test '' != "$quilt_author_name" &&
test '' != "$quilt_author_email" ||
- die "malformatted --author parameter"
+ die "malformed --author parameter"
fi
# Quilt patch directory
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index c9c1975b7f..d7f5dce489 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Options:
--smtp-server If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use.
Defaults to localhost.
- --suppress-from Supress sending emails to yourself if your address
+ --suppress-from Suppress sending emails to yourself if your address
appears in a From: line.
--quiet Make git-send-email less verbose. One line per email should be
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index f04e269939..4530ffe42c 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -2429,7 +2429,7 @@ sub extract_metadata {
\s([a-f\d\-]+)$/x);
if (!$rev || !$uuid || !$url) {
# some of the original repositories I made had
- # indentifiers like this:
+ # identifiers like this:
($rev, $uuid) = ($id =~/^git-svn-id:\s(\d+)\@([a-f\d\-]+)/);
}
return ($url, $rev, $uuid);
diff --git a/name-rev.c b/name-rev.c
index 6a23f2d8a2..083d067e17 100644
--- a/name-rev.c
+++ b/name-rev.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include "refs.h"
static const char name_rev_usage[] =
- "git-name-rev [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | commitish [commitish...] )\n";
+ "git-name-rev [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | committish [committish...] )\n";
typedef struct rev_name {
const char *tip_name;
diff --git a/pack-objects.c b/pack-objects.c
index b486ea528a..04a48b925b 100644
--- a/pack-objects.c
+++ b/pack-objects.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct object_entry {
struct object_entry *delta; /* delta base object */
struct packed_git *in_pack; /* already in pack */
unsigned int in_pack_offset;
- struct object_entry *delta_child; /* delitified objects who bases me */
+ struct object_entry *delta_child; /* deltified objects who bases me */
struct object_entry *delta_sibling; /* other deltified objects who
* uses the same base as me
*/
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct object_entry {
};
/*
- * Objects we are going to pack are colected in objects array (dynamically
+ * Objects we are going to pack are collected in objects array (dynamically
* expanded). nr_objects & nr_alloc controls this array. They are stored
* in the order we see -- typically rev-list --objects order that gives us
* nice "minimum seek" order.
diff --git a/ppc/sha1ppc.S b/ppc/sha1ppc.S
index f591d98b3f..140cb53370 100644
--- a/ppc/sha1ppc.S
+++ b/ppc/sha1ppc.S
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
* computation of W[t+4].
*
* The first 16 rounds use W values loaded directly from memory, while the
- * remianing 64 use values computed from those first 16. We preload
+ * remaining 64 use values computed from those first 16. We preload
* 4 values before starting, so there are three kinds of rounds:
* - The first 12 (all f0) also load the W values from memory.
* - The next 64 compute W(i+4) in parallel. 8*f0, 20*f1, 20*f2, 16*f1.
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index bc35808440..f7bb3a1c54 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -1660,7 +1660,7 @@ int has_sha1_file(const unsigned char *sha1)
/*
* reads from fd as long as possible into a supplied buffer of size bytes.
- * If neccessary the buffer's size is increased using realloc()
+ * If necessary the buffer's size is increased using realloc()
*
* returns 0 if anything went fine and -1 otherwise
*
diff --git a/t/t5700-clone-reference.sh b/t/t5700-clone-reference.sh
index 916ee15ba1..dd9caad1c2 100755
--- a/t/t5700-clone-reference.sh
+++ b/t/t5700-clone-reference.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cloning with reference' \
cd "$base_dir"
-test_expect_success 'existance of info/alternates' \
+test_expect_success 'existence of info/alternates' \
'test `wc -l <C/.git/objects/info/alternates` = 2'
cd "$base_dir"
diff --git a/t/t5710-info-alternate.sh b/t/t5710-info-alternate.sh
index 097d037f5d..2e1b48a89b 100755
--- a/t/t5710-info-alternate.sh
+++ b/t/t5710-info-alternate.sh
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ test_valid_repo"
cd "$base_dir"
-test_expect_failure 'that info/alternates is neccessary' \
+test_expect_failure 'that info/alternates is necessary' \
'cd C &&
rm .git/objects/info/alternates &&
test_valid_repo'
diff --git a/t/t6002-rev-list-bisect.sh b/t/t6002-rev-list-bisect.sh
index 693de9b32d..7831e3461c 100755
--- a/t/t6002-rev-list-bisect.sh
+++ b/t/t6002-rev-list-bisect.sh
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ test_sequence()
test_bisection_diff 0 $_bisect_option u5 ^U
#
-# the following illustrate's Linus' binary bug blatt idea.
+# the following illustrates Linus' binary bug blatt idea.
#
# assume the bug is actually at l3, but you don't know that - all you know is that l3 is broken
# and it wasn't broken before
diff --git a/t/t6021-merge-criss-cross.sh b/t/t6021-merge-criss-cross.sh
index 262381379f..8f7366da8d 100755
--- a/t/t6021-merge-criss-cross.sh
+++ b/t/t6021-merge-criss-cross.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#
# See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111463358500362&w=2 for a
-# nice decription of what this is about.
+# nice description of what this is about.
test_description='Test criss-cross merge'
diff --git a/xdiff/xdiffi.c b/xdiff/xdiffi.c
index ed7ad2041c..d76e76a0e6 100644
--- a/xdiff/xdiffi.c
+++ b/xdiff/xdiffi.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static long xdl_split(unsigned long const *ha1, long off1, long lim1,
* We need to extent the diagonal "domain" by one. If the next
* values exits the box boundaries we need to change it in the
* opposite direction because (max - min) must be a power of two.
- * Also we initialize the extenal K value to -1 so that we can
+ * Also we initialize the external K value to -1 so that we can
* avoid extra conditions check inside the core loop.
*/
if (fmin > dmin)
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static long xdl_split(unsigned long const *ha1, long off1, long lim1,
* We need to extent the diagonal "domain" by one. If the next
* values exits the box boundaries we need to change it in the
* opposite direction because (max - min) must be a power of two.
- * Also we initialize the extenal K value to -1 so that we can
+ * Also we initialize the external K value to -1 so that we can
* avoid extra conditions check inside the core loop.
*/
if (bmin > dmin)
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static int xdl_change_compact(xdfile_t *xdf, xdfile_t *xdfo, long flags) {
/*
* This is the same of what GNU diff does. Move back and forward
* change groups for a consistent and pretty diff output. This also
- * helps in finding joineable change groups and reduce the diff size.
+ * helps in finding joinable change groups and reduce the diff size.
*/
for (ix = ixo = 0;;) {
/*