Re: [PATCH COMMITTED] Fix a few typos in comments

[Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:17 AM Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Apply the following spelling fixes:
> $ git grep -F -l 'relevent' |
>   xargs sed -i 's/relevent/relevant/g'

This kind of patch is useful and welcome, but I want to warn anyone
who might be tempted to do something similar: after making global
mechanical search-and-replace changes like this, you must manually
review the diff and make sure you only changed text in comments, not
code, and not names in comments either.  It would not be appropriate,
for instance, to "correct" the name of the function "creat".

zw