Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation/technical: fix a typo

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:12:20 -0700

Andrew Kreimer <[email-masked]> writes:

> Fix a typo in documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/technical/sparse-checkout.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/technical/sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/technical/sparse-checkout.txt
> index fa0d01cbda..d968659354 100644
> --- a/Documentation/technical/sparse-checkout.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/technical/sparse-checkout.txt
> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ everything behaves like a dense checkout with a few exceptions (e.g. branch
>  checkouts and switches write fewer things, knowing the VFS will lazily
>  write the rest on an as-needed basis).
>  
> -Since there is no publically available VFS-related code for folks to try,
> +Since there is no publicly available VFS-related code for folks to try,

As a general rule, unless we are doing codewide sweep to use a
single word in our glossary to refer to the same thing, or
something, we should honor author's preference, when it is already
written and it is not blatantly wrong.

  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/publically

I am inclined to say that we should keep it as written, but I am not
a native speaker, so please cite a source that tells what is written
is blatantly wrong to help me accept this patch.

Thanks.