*: fix typos which duplicate a word

Fix typos in documentation, code comments, and RelNotes which repeat
various words.  In trivial cases, just delete the duplicated word and
rewrap text, if needed.  Reword the affected sentence in
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt for it to make sense.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

14 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt
index ae05778..ad36c0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.2
   if the working tree is currently dirty.
 
 * "git for-each-ref --format=%(subject)" fixed for commits with no
-  no newline in the message body.
+  newline in the message body.
 
 * "git remote" fixed to protect printf from user input.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index 255e185..2e75299 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ details).
    (merge 2fbd4f9 mh/maint-lockfile-overflow later to maint).
 
  * Invocations of "git checkout" used internally by "git rebase" were
-   counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -" to the
+   counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -", which took
    the user to an unexpected place.
    (merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
index 06ba2f8..1f41302 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the
    normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file..
 
- * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands
-   have been turned into into built-in.
+ * An unused binary has been discarded, and a bunch of commands
+   have been turned into built-in.
 
  * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to
    execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo"
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
index 27320b6..3845328 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ notes for details).
    on that order.
 
  * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
-   rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard
+   rev, i.e. the object named by the pathname with wildcard
    characters in a tree object.
    (merge aac4fac nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt b/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt
index 7c1630b..260224b 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ supports four different modes of operation:
     convert any object names written to output to SHA-1, but store
     objects using SHA-256.  This allows users to test the code with no
     visible behavior change except for performance.  This allows
-    allows running even tests that assume the SHA-1 hash function, to
+    running even tests that assume the SHA-1 hash function, to
     sanity-check the behavior of the new mode.
 
  2. ("early transition") Allow both SHA-1 and SHA-256 object names in
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
index a1e3136..1040d85 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ An `object-info` request takes the following arguments:
 	Indicates to the server an object which the client wants to obtain
 	information for.
 
-The response of `object-info` is a list of the the requested object ids
+The response of `object-info` is a list of the requested object ids
 and associated requested information, each separated by a single space.
 
 	output = info flush-pkt
diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index 9e897e4..d029e68 100644
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ static struct attr_stack *read_attr_from_array(const char **list)
  * Callers into the attribute system assume there is a single, system-wide
  * global state where attributes are read from and when the state is flipped by
  * calling git_attr_set_direction(), the stack frames that have been
- * constructed need to be discarded so so that subsequent calls into the
+ * constructed need to be discarded so that subsequent calls into the
  * attribute system will lazily read from the right place.  Since changing
  * direction causes a global paradigm shift, it should not ever be called while
  * another thread could potentially be calling into the attribute system.
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 6102893..516a114 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -1968,8 +1968,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	} else if (rev.diffopt.close_file) {
 		/*
 		 * The diff code parsed --output; it has already opened the
-		 * file, but but we must instruct it not to close after each
-		 * diff.
+		 * file, but we must instruct it not to close after each diff.
 		 */
 		rev.diffopt.no_free = 1;
 	} else {
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index a508dbe..df7dae9 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ static inline void *container_of_or_null_offset(void *ptr, size_t offset)
 	(type *)container_of_or_null_offset(ptr, offsetof(type, member))
 
 /*
- * like offsetof(), but takes a pointer to a a variable of type which
+ * like offsetof(), but takes a pointer to a variable of type which
  * contains @member, instead of a specified type.
  * @ptr is subject to multiple evaluation since we can't rely on __typeof__
  * everywhere.
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index f6f3fc1..ed035f3 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@ sub req_diff
                    ( $meta2->{revision} or "workingcopy" ));
 
         # TODO: Use --label instead of -L because -L is no longer
-        #  documented and may go away someday.  Not sure if there there are
+        #  documented and may go away someday.  Not sure if there are
         #  versions that only support -L, which would make this change risky?
         #  http://osdir.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils-gnu/2010-12/msg00060.html
         #    ("man diff" should actually document the best migration strategy,
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index d146bb1..4327e0c 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ static char *handle_path_level_conflicts(struct merge_options *opt,
  *      implicit renaming of files that should be left in place.  (See
  *      testcase 6b in t6043 for details.)
  *   2. Prune directory renames if there are still files left in the
- *      the original directory.  These represent a partial directory rename,
+ *      original directory.  These represent a partial directory rename,
  *      i.e. a rename where only some of the files within the directory
  *      were renamed elsewhere.  (Technically, this could be done earlier
  *      in get_directory_renames(), except that would prevent us from
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 6d1e8d0..dfb863d 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ void set_ref_status_for_push(struct ref *remote_refs, int send_mirror,
 			else
 				/*
 				 * If the ref isn't stale, and is reachable
-				 * from from one of the reflog entries of
+				 * from one of the reflog entries of
 				 * the local branch, force the update.
 				 */
 				force_ref_update = 1;
diff --git a/t/t5505-remote.sh b/t/t5505-remote.sh
index c7b3927..e6e3c8f 100755
--- a/t/t5505-remote.sh
+++ b/t/t5505-remote.sh
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ test_expect_success 'rename errors out early when deleting non-existent branch'
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'rename errors out early when when new name is invalid' '
+test_expect_success 'rename errors out early when new name is invalid' '
 	test_config remote.foo.vcs bar &&
 	echo "fatal: '\''invalid...name'\'' is not a valid remote name" >expect &&
 	test_must_fail git remote rename foo invalid...name 2>actual &&
diff --git a/t/t9100-git-svn-basic.sh b/t/t9100-git-svn-basic.sh
index 1d3fdcc..ef35a54 100755
--- a/t/t9100-git-svn-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t9100-git-svn-basic.sh
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ test_expect_success 'git-svn works in a bare repository' '
 	git svn fetch ) &&
 	rm -rf bare-repo
 	'
-test_expect_success 'git-svn works in in a repository with a gitdir: link' '
+test_expect_success 'git-svn works in a repository with a gitdir: link' '
 	mkdir worktree gitdir &&
 	( cd worktree &&
 	git svn init "$svnrepo" &&