Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix typos

From: Tuomas Ahola <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 16:14:57 +0300

Fix some typos and grammar errors in comments and documentation files.

Signed-off-by: Tuomas Ahola <[email-masked]>
---

Notes:
    Written mostly as an exercise on how to submit patches that depend
    on other topics.
    
    $ git log --oneline --first-parent v2.54.0..
    d19e9182ab (HEAD -> ta/typofixes) docs: fix typos
    5a7e9cc03d Merge branch 'ta/approxidate-noon-fix'
    f03649d802 Merge branch 'kh/name-rev-custom-format'
    023a226b4b Merge branch 'jc/neuter-sideband-fixup'
    
    As can be seen, these topics have already graduated to master:
    
    $ git cherry master
    + d19e9182ab097a722e32d459a9a58c8985831e3b

 Documentation/config/sideband.adoc | 2 +-
 Documentation/git-format-rev.adoc  | 2 +-
 date.c                             | 2 +-
 replay.h                           | 2 +-
 t/t9902-completion.sh              | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/sideband.adoc b/Documentation/config/sideband.adoc
index 96fade7f5f..ff007aeb73 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/sideband.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/sideband.adoc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ sideband.allowControlCharacters::
 		Allow control sequences that move the cursor. This is
 		disabled by default.
 	`erase`::
-		Allow control sequences that erase charactrs. This is
+		Allow control sequences that erase characters. This is
 		disabled by default.
 	`false`::
 		Mask all control characters other than line feeds and
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-rev.adoc b/Documentation/git-format-rev.adoc
index c40d52e9f6..505a52fecc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-rev.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-rev.adoc
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
 The argument `rev` is also accepted.
 
 `text`;; Formats all commit object names found in freeform text. These
-	must the full object names, i.e. abbreviated hexidecimal object
+	must be full object names, i.e. abbreviated hexadecimal object
 	names will not be interpreted.
 +
 Anything that is parsed as an object name but that is not found to be a
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index 05b78d852f..014065b419 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ void datestamp(struct strbuf *out)
  *
  * The tm->tm_mday field has an additional logic of using negative values
  * for date adjustments: -2 means yesterday and -3 the day before that,
- * and so on.  The idea is to deref such adjustments until we are sure
+ * and so on.  The idea is to defer such adjustments until we are sure
  * there's no explicit mday specification in the approxidate string.
  */
 static time_t update_tm(struct tm *tm, struct tm *now, time_t sec)
diff --git a/replay.h b/replay.h
index 0ab74b9805..90ed299ff0 100644
--- a/replay.h
+++ b/replay.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ struct replay_revisions_options {
 
 	/*
 	 * Starting point at which to create the new commits; must be a
-	 * committish. References pointing at decendants of `onto` will be
+	 * committish. References pointing at descendants of `onto` will be
 	 * updated to point to the new commits.
 	 */
 	const char *onto;
diff --git a/t/t9902-completion.sh b/t/t9902-completion.sh
index 2f9a597ec7..7c6db76c9d 100755
--- a/t/t9902-completion.sh
+++ b/t/t9902-completion.sh
@@ -2446,7 +2446,7 @@ test_expect_success FUNNYNAMES \
 	>repeated-quoted/2-file &&
 	>repeated-quoted/3\"file &&   # ... and here, too.
 
-	# Still, we shold only list the directory name only once.
+	# Still, we should list the directory name only once.
 	test_path_completion repeated repeated-quoted
 '

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