comments: avoid using the gender of our users

We generally avoid specifying the gender of our users in order to be
more inclusive, but sometimes a few slip by due to habit.

Since by doing a little bit of rewording we can avoid this irrelevant
detail, let's do so.

Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

commit.c

@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ static void handle_signed_tag(struct commit *parent, struct commit_extra_header
 	/*
 	 * We could verify this signature and either omit the tag when
 	 * it does not validate, but the integrator may not have the
-	 * public key of the signer of the tag he is merging, while a
+	 * public key of the signer of the tag being merged, while a
 	 * later auditor may have it while auditing, so let's not run
 	 * verify-signed-buffer here for now...
 	 *

config.h

@@ -448,8 +448,8 @@ void git_configset_init(struct config_set *cs);
 /**
  * Parses the file and adds the variable-value pairs to the `config_set`,
  * dies if there is an error in parsing the file. Returns 0 on success, or
- * -1 if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. The user has to decide
- * if he wants to free the incomplete configset or continue using it when
+ * -1 if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. The caller decides
+ * whether to free the incomplete configset or continue using it when
  * the function returns -1.
  */
 int git_configset_add_file(struct config_set *cs, const char *filename);

date.c

@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ int parse_expiry_date(const char *date, timestamp_t *timestamp)
 		/*
 		 * We take over "now" here, which usually translates
 		 * to the current timestamp.  This is because the user
-		 * really means to expire everything she has done in
+		 * really means to expire everything that was done in
 		 * the past, and by definition reflogs are the record
 		 * of the past, and there is nothing from the future
 		 * to be kept.

pathspec.h

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ struct pathspec {
  *
  * A similar process is applied when a new pathspec magic is added. The designer
  * lifts the GUARD_PATHSPEC restriction in the functions that support the new
- * magic. At the same time (s)he has to make sure this new feature will be
+ * magic while at the same time making sure this new feature will be
  * caught at parse_pathspec() in commands that cannot handle the new magic in
  * some cases. grepping parse_pathspec() should help.
  */

strbuf.h

@@ -337,8 +337,8 @@ const char *strbuf_join_argv(struct strbuf *buf, int argc,
  * placeholder is unknown, then the percent sign is copied, too.
  *
  * In order to facilitate caching and to make it possible to give
- * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context pointer,
- * which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
+ * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context
+ * pointer with any kind of data.
  */
 typedef size_t (*expand_fn_t) (struct strbuf *sb,
 			       const char *placeholder,

wt-status.c

@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ static void wt_status_collect_changes_index(struct wt_status *s)
 		 * mode by passing a command line option we do not ignore any
 		 * changed submodule SHA-1s when comparing index and HEAD, no
 		 * matter what is configured. Otherwise the user won't be
-		 * shown any submodules she manually added (and which are
+		 * shown any submodules manually added (and which are
 		 * staged to be committed), which would be really confusing.
 		 */
 		handle_ignore_submodules_arg(&rev.diffopt, "dirty");