Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Typos in code comments, an error message, documentation

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.5.6.2
 --------------------
 
-* Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
+* Setting core.sharedrepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
   the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others.
   However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is
   022, making the repository unreadable by others.

Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1
 * Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used
   with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings.
 
-* Some systems needs to use compatibility fnmach and regex libraries
+* Some systems need to use compatibility fnmatch and regex libraries
   independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to
   allow this.
 

Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4.2
   been deprecated.
 
 * "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the
-  presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
+  presence of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
   file by issuing a HEAD request.  Github server however sometimes
   gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET
   request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke

Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.3
    future versions, but not in this release,
 
  * "git merge -m <message> <branch>..." added the standard merge message
-   on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overrided the
+   on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overridden the
    standard one.
 
 Other minor documentation updates are included.

Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.6
   an older version of git should just ignore them.  Instead we diagnosed
   it as an error.
 
-* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typoes
+* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typos
   in the subcommand name misfired and ran a random nonsense command.
 
 * If a command is run with an absolute path as a pathspec inside a bare

Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
 the new version of git.  When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
 1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
 guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
-during the entire transtion period, and ended up panicking on the day
+during the entire transition period, and ended up panicking on the day
 their sysadmins updated their git installation.  We are trying to avoid
 repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ users will fare this time.
  * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options
    only as a way to filter the patch output.  "git diff --exit-code -b"
    exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the
-   ammount of whitespace and nothing else.  and "git diff -b" showed the
+   amount of whitespace and nothing else.  and "git diff -b" showed the
    "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text.
 
    In 1.7.0, the "ignore whitespaces" will affect the semantics of the

Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
    the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged
    to the current branch.  It now deletes it in such a case.
 
- * "fiter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit
+ * "filter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit
    were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter.
 
  * When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree

Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ reverting W.  Mainline's history would look like this:
    A---B---C
 
 But if you don't actually need to change commit A, then you need some way to
-recreate it as a new commit with the same changes in it.  The rebase commmand's
+recreate it as a new commit with the same changes in it.  The rebase command's
 --no-ff option provides a way to do this:
 
     $ git rebase [-i] --no-ff P

builtin/blame.c

@@ -2368,11 +2368,11 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	 *
 	 * The remaining are:
 	 *
-	 * (1) if dashdash_pos != 0, its either
+	 * (1) if dashdash_pos != 0, it is either
 	 *     "blame [revisions] -- <path>" or
 	 *     "blame -- <path> <rev>"
 	 *
-	 * (2) otherwise, its one of the two:
+	 * (2) otherwise, it is one of the two:
 	 *     "blame [revisions] <path>"
 	 *     "blame <path> <rev>"
 	 *

compat/mingw.c

@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static char *lookup_prog(const char *dir, const char *cmd, int isexe, int exe_on
 }
 
 /*
- * Determines the absolute path of cmd using the the split path in path.
+ * Determines the absolute path of cmd using the split path in path.
  * If cmd contains a slash or backslash, no lookup is performed.
  */
 static char *path_lookup(const char *cmd, char **path, int exe_only)