[PATCH 1/2] doc: avoid using the gender of other people
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From: Felipe Contreras <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-11 20:28:42
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Some people have a problem with using a female reviewer or a female developer as an example, and since this is an irrelevant detail, let's say goodbye to our illustrative female colleagues. Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <redacted> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 ++--- Documentation/git-push.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 55287d72e0..3e215f4d80 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches@@ -373,9 +373,8 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end: . `Acked-by:` says that the person who is more familiar with the area the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. . `Reviewed-by:`, unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the - reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the patch - is ready for application. It is usually offered only after a - detailed review. + reviewers themselves when they are completely satisfied with the + patch after a detailed analysis. . `Tested-by:` is used to indicate that the person applied the patch and found it to have the desired effect.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index a953c7c387..2f25aa3a29 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published. You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to replace the history you originally published with the rebased history. If somebody else built on top of your original history while you are -rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with her -commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work. +rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with their +commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose their work. + This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index f9e54b8674..96240598e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@ A fast-forward looks something like this: In some cases it is possible that the new head will *not* actually be a descendant of the old head. For example, the developer may have -realized she made a serious mistake, and decided to backtrack, +realized a serious mistake was made and decided to backtrack, resulting in a situation like: ................................................
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