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✏️ Contributor please read this
By default the command suggestion will generate a file named based on your commit. That's generally ok as long as you add the file to your commit. Someone can reorganize it later.
⚠️ The command is written for posix shells. You can copy the contents of each perl command excluding the outer ' marks and dropping any '"/"' quotation mark pairs into a file and then run perl file.pl from the root of the repository to run the code. Alternatively, you can manually insert the items...
If the listed items are:
- ... misspelled, then please correct them instead of using the command.
- ... names, please add them to
.github/actions/spelling/allow/names.txt. - ... APIs, you can add them to a file in
.github/actions/spelling/allow/. - ... just things you're using, please add them to an appropriate file in
.github/actions/spelling/expect/. - ... tokens you only need in one place and shouldn't generally be used, you can add an item in an appropriate file in
.github/actions/spelling/patterns/.
See the README.md in each directory for more information.
🔬 You can test your commits without appending to a PR by creating a new branch with that extra change and pushing it to your fork. The check-spelling action will run in response to your push -- it doesn't require an open pull request. By using such a branch, you can limit the number of typos your peers see you make. 😉
🗜️ If you see a bunch of garbage
If it relates to a ...
well-formed pattern
See if there's a pattern that would match it.
If not, try writing one and adding it to a patterns/{file}.txt.
Patterns are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your lines.
Note that patterns can't match multiline strings.
binary-ish string
Please add a file path to the excludes.txt file instead of just accepting the garbage.
File paths are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your files.
^ refers to the file's path from the root of the repository, so ^README\.md$ would exclude README.md (on whichever branch you're using).