[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix typos in src/*

[Eric Blake]

On 04/21/2014 05:13 PM, Nehal J Wani wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/20/2014 02:07 PM, Nehal J Wani wrote:
>>> Fix minor typos in source comments
>>>
>>> ---
>>
>> Thanks for doing this!  Any particular tool you used for finding these?
> 
> Thanks for the review.
> 
> Well, not exactly a tool, but I had a list of most common misspellings
> (scraped from Wikipedia, etc) and then in the source tree:
> 
> for i in `cat /tmp/bad_words | awk '{print $1}'` ; do echo " $i ";
> grep " $i " -r ./* ; done
> 
> I deliberately didn't touch the errors in news.html.in because it
> directly copies the commit messages. So, if we have a spell error in
> the git log and the same is not present in this file, I thought maybe
> inconsistency issues will arise.

Oh well; if someone regenerates news.html.in it will revert to the wrong
spellings.  Gnulib has a feature called 'gitlog-to-changelog' which also
has the option of providing fixups for typos in commit messages
(basically a text file of replacement rules to apply to overcome bad
commit contents); if news.html.in were generated from the touched up
changelog instead of directly from git history, we'd have both nicer
looking news and no risk of typos being reintroduced.  But that can be a
project for another day.  DV is currently the one that generates
news.html.in additions, and I'm not sure what his process is.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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