Merge branch 'jl/nor-or-nand-and'

Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used
not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output
strings, and documentations.

* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
  code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
  comments: fix misuses of "nor"
  contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
  Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"

Documentation/CodingGuidelines

@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
    E.g.: my_function () {
 
  - As to use of grep, stick to a subset of BRE (namely, no \{m,n\},
-   [::], [==], nor [..]) for portability.
+   [::], [==], or [..]) for portability.
 
    - We do not use \{m,n\};
 
    - We do not use -E;
 
-   - We do not use ? nor + (which are \{0,1\} and \{1,\}
+   - We do not use ? or + (which are \{0,1\} and \{1,\}
      respectively in BRE) but that goes without saying as these
      are ERE elements not BRE (note that \? and \+ are not even part
      of BRE -- making them accessible from BRE is a GNU extension).

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`.
 
 The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
 `\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB)
-and `\b` for backspace (BS).  No other char escape sequence, nor octal
+and `\b` for backspace (BS).  Other char escape sequences (including octal
-char sequences are valid.
+escape sequences) are invalid.
 
 Variable values ending in a `\` are continued on the next line in the
 customary UNIX fashion.
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ color.diff::
 	commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
 	Defaults to false.
 +
-This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] nor the
+This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the
 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands.  Can be overridden on the
 command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
 

Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ added, from the point of view of that parent).
 In the above example output, the function signature was changed
 from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and
 file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear
-in either file1 nor file2).  Also eight other lines are the same
+in either file1 or file2).  Also eight other lines are the same
 from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `+`).
 
 When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a

Documentation/diff-options.txt

@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ endif::git-log[]
 --irreversible-delete::
 	Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not
 	the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch
-	is not meant to be applied with `patch` nor `git apply`; this is
+	is not meant to be applied with `patch` or `git apply`; this is
 	solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the
 	text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack
 	enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually,

Documentation/everyday.txt

@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ that are not quite ready.
 <5> create topic branch as needed and apply, again with my
 sign-offs.
 <6> rebase internal topic branch that has not been merged to the
-master, nor exposed as a part of a stable branch.
+master or exposed as a part of a stable branch.
 <7> restart `pu` every time from the next.
 <8> and bundle topic branches still cooking.
 <9> backport a critical fix.

Documentation/git-add.txt

@@ -300,9 +300,9 @@ patch::
 
        y - stage this hunk
        n - do not stage this hunk
-       q - quit; do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
+       q - quit; do not stage this hunk or any of the remaining ones
        a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
-       d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the later hunks in the file
+       d - do not stage this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file
        g - select a hunk to go to
        / - search for a hunk matching the given regex
        j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk

Documentation/git-count-objects.txt

@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ size-pack: disk space consumed by the packs, in KiB (unless -H is specified)
 prune-packable: the number of loose objects that are also present in
 the packs. These objects could be pruned using `git prune-packed`.
 +
-garbage: the number of files in object database that are not valid
+garbage: the number of files in object database that are neither valid loose
-loose objects nor valid packs
+objects nor valid packs
 +
 size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is
 specified)

Documentation/git-diff.txt

@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ $ git diff --name-status                <2>
 $ git diff arch/i386 include/asm-i386   <3>
 ------------
 +
-<1> Show only modification, rename and copy, but not addition
+<1> Show only modification, rename, and copy, but not addition
-nor deletion.
+or deletion.
 <2> Show only names and the nature of change, but not actual
 diff output.
 <3> Limit diff output to named subtrees.

Documentation/git-prune.txt

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ OPTIONS
 EXAMPLE
 -------
 
-To prune objects not used by your repository nor another that
+To prune objects not used by your repository or another that
 borrows from your repository via its
 `.git/objects/info/alternates`:
 

Documentation/git-push.txt

@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ will now start building on top of B.
 The command by default does not allow an update that is not a fast-forward
 to prevent such loss of history.
 
-If you do not want to lose your work (history from X to B) nor the work by
+If you do not want to lose your work (history from X to B) or the work by
 the other person (history from X to A), you would need to first fetch the
 history from the repository, create a history that contains changes done
 by both parties, and push the result back.

Documentation/git-read-tree.txt

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -n::
 --dry-run::
 	Check if the command would error out, without updating the index
-	nor the files in the working tree for real.
+	or the files in the working tree for real.
 
 -v::
 	Show the progress of checking files out.

Documentation/git-reset.txt

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ to HEAD in all forms.
 
 'git reset' [-q] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...::
 	This form resets the index entries for all <paths> to their
-	state at <tree-ish>.  (It does not affect the working tree, nor
+	state at <tree-ish>.  (It does not affect the working tree or
 	the current branch.)
 +
 This means that `git reset <paths>` is the opposite of `git add
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
 +
 --
 --soft::
-	Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all (but
+	Does not touch the index file or the working tree at all (but
 	resets the head to <commit>, just like all modes do). This leaves
 	all your changed files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status'
 	would put it.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ and changes with these files are distracting.
 <2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sounds worthy of merging.
 <3> However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does
 not match the HEAD commit).  But you know the pull you are going
-to make does not affect frotz.c nor filfre.c, so you revert the
+to make does not affect frotz.c or filfre.c, so you revert the
 index changes for these two files.  Your changes in working tree
 remain there.
 <4> Then you can pull and merge, leaving frotz.c and filfre.c

Documentation/git-show-branch.txt

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and/or refs/tags) semi-visually.
 It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time.
 
 It uses `showbranch.default` multi-valued configuration items if
-no <rev> nor <glob> is given on the command line.
+no <rev> or <glob> is given on the command line.
 
 
 OPTIONS

Documentation/git-show-ref.txt

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Show references matching one or more patterns. Patterns are matched from
 	the end of the full name, and only complete parts are matched, e.g.
 	'master' matches 'refs/heads/master', 'refs/remotes/origin/master',
-	'refs/tags/jedi/master' but not 'refs/heads/mymaster' nor
+	'refs/tags/jedi/master' but not 'refs/heads/mymaster' or
 	'refs/remotes/master/jedi'.
 
 OUTPUT

Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ You fetch from upstream, but not merge.
     $ git fetch upstream
 
 This leaves the updated upstream head in .git/FETCH_HEAD but
-does not touch your .git/HEAD nor .git/refs/heads/master.
+does not touch your .git/HEAD or .git/refs/heads/master.
 You run "git rebase" now.
 
     $ git rebase FETCH_HEAD master

Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ where C and D are to fix what was broken in A and B, and you may already
 have some other changes on the mainline after W.
 
 If you merge the updated side branch (with D at its tip), none of the
-changes made in A nor B will be in the result, because they were reverted
+changes made in A or B will be in the result, because they were reverted
 by W.  That is what Alan saw.
 
 Linus explains the situation:
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ with:
     $ git revert W
 
 This history would (ignoring possible conflicts between what W and W..Y
-changed) be equivalent to not having W nor Y at all in the history:
+changed) be equivalent to not having W or Y at all in the history:
 
  ---o---o---o---M---x---x-------x----
 	       /

Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ $ make clean test ;# make sure it did not cause other breakage.
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 Everything is in the good order.  I do not need the temporary branch
-nor tag anymore, so remove them:
+or tag anymore, so remove them:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ rm -f .git/refs/tags/pu-anchor

Documentation/merge-options.txt

@@ -63,14 +63,13 @@ merge.
 
 --squash::
 --no-squash::
-	Produce the working tree and index state as if a real
+	Produce the working tree and index state as if a real merge
-	merge happened (except for the merge information),
+	happened (except for the merge information), but do not actually
-	but do not actually make a commit or
+	make a commit, move the `HEAD`, or record `$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD`
-	move the `HEAD`, nor record `$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD` to
+	(to cause the next `git commit` command to create a merge
-	cause the next `git commit` command to create a merge
+	commit).  This allows you to create a single commit on top of
-	commit.  This allows you to create a single commit on
+	the current branch whose effect is the same as merging another
-	top of the current branch whose effect is the same as
+	branch (or more in case of an octopus).
-	merging another branch (or more in case of an octopus).
 +
 With --no-squash perform the merge and commit the result. This
 option can be used to override --squash.

Documentation/pretty-formats.txt

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as
 stored in the commit object.  Notably, the SHA-1s are
 displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
 --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
-true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
+true parent commits, without taking grafts or history
 simplification into account.
 
 * 'format:<string>'

Documentation/pretty-options.txt

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
 	Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the
 	commit, when showing the commit log message.  This is the default
 	for `git log`, `git show` and `git whatchanged` commands when
-	there is no `--pretty`, `--format` nor `--oneline` option given
+	there is no `--pretty`, `--format`, or `--oneline` option given
 	on the command line.
 +
 By default, the notes shown are from the notes refs listed in the

Documentation/rev-list-options.txt

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ list.
 	reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones.
 	When this option is used you cannot specify commits to
 	exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2',
-	nor 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used).
+	and 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used).
 +
 With `--pretty` format other than `oneline` (for obvious reasons),
 this causes the output to have two extra lines of information

Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void setup_check(void)
 		The attribute is Unset, by listing the name of the
 		attribute prefixed with a dash - for the path.
 	} else if (ATTR_UNSET(value)) {
-		The attribute is not set nor unset for the path.
+		The attribute is neither set nor unset for the path.
 	} else if (!strcmp(value, "input")) {
 		If none of ATTR_TRUE(), ATTR_FALSE(), or ATTR_UNSET() is
 		true, the value is a string set in the gitattributes

Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt

@@ -237,10 +237,10 @@ The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for
 this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the
 tip of the history, if any, as a 'deepen' line.  A depth of 0 is the
 same as not making a depth request. The client does not want to receive
-any commits beyond this depth, nor objects needed only to complete
+any commits beyond this depth, nor does it want objects needed only to
-those commits. Commits whose parents are not received as a result are
+complete those commits. Commits whose parents are not received as a
-defined as shallow and marked as such in the server. This information
+result are defined as shallow and marked as such in the server. This
-is sent back to the client in the next step.
+information is sent back to the client in the next step.
 
 Once all the 'want's and 'shallow's (and optional 'deepen') are
 transferred, clients MUST send a flush-pkt, to tell the server side

Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ More specifically, they:
   caret `^`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`,
   or open bracket `[` anywhere.
 
-. They cannot end with a slash `/` nor a dot `.`.
+. They cannot end with a slash `/` or a dot `.`.
 
 . They cannot end with the sequence `.lock`.
 

Documentation/user-manual.txt

@@ -4074,7 +4074,7 @@ the `HEAD` tree, and stage 3 to the `$target` tree.
 
 Earlier we said that trivial merges are done inside
 `git read-tree -m`.  For example, if the file did not change
-from `$orig` to `HEAD` nor `$target`, or if the file changed
+from `$orig` to `HEAD` or `$target`, or if the file changed
 from `$orig` to `HEAD` and `$orig` to `$target` the same way,
 obviously the final outcome is what is in `HEAD`.  What the
 above example shows is that file `hello.c` was changed from

Makefile

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ all::
 #
 # Define NEEDS_LIBINTL_BEFORE_LIBICONV if you need libintl before libiconv.
 #
-# Define NO_INTPTR_T if you don't have intptr_t nor uintptr_t.
+# Define NO_INTPTR_T if you don't have intptr_t or uintptr_t.
 #
 # Define NO_UINTMAX_T if you don't have uintmax_t.
 #

builtin/apply.c

@@ -4061,7 +4061,7 @@ static int write_out_one_reject(struct patch *patch)
 		return error(_("cannot open %s: %s"), namebuf, strerror(errno));
 
 	/* Normal git tools never deal with .rej, so do not pretend
-	 * this is a git patch by saying --git nor give extended
+	 * this is a git patch by saying --git or giving extended
 	 * headers.  While at it, maybe please "kompare" that wants
 	 * the trailing TAB and some garbage at the end of line ;-).
 	 */

builtin/checkout.c

@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ static int parse_branchname_arg(int argc, const char **argv,
 	 *       between A and B, A...B names that merge base.
 	 *
 	 *   (b) If <something> is _not_ a commit, either "--" is present
-	 *       or <something> is not a path, no -t nor -b was given, and
+	 *       or <something> is not a path, no -t or -b was given, and
 	 *       and there is a tracking branch whose name is <something>
 	 *       in one and only one remote, then this is a short-hand to
 	 *       fork local <something> from that remote-tracking branch.

builtin/clean.c

@@ -904,11 +904,11 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (!interactive && !dry_run && !force) {
 		if (config_set)
-			die(_("clean.requireForce set to true and neither -i, -n nor -f given; "
+			die(_("clean.requireForce set to true and neither -i, -n, nor -f given; "
 				  "refusing to clean"));
 		else
-			die(_("clean.requireForce defaults to true and neither -i, -n nor -f given; "
+			die(_("clean.requireForce defaults to true and neither -i, -n, nor -f given;"
-				  "refusing to clean"));
+				  " refusing to clean"));
 	}
 
 	if (force > 1)

builtin/commit.c

@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static int parse_and_validate_options(int argc, const char *argv[],
 	if (argc == 0 && only && amend)
 		only_include_assumed = _("Clever... amending the last one with dirty index.");
 	if (argc > 0 && !also && !only)
-		only_include_assumed = _("Explicit paths specified without -i nor -o; assuming --only paths...");
+		only_include_assumed = _("Explicit paths specified without -i or -o; assuming --only paths...");
 	if (!cleanup_arg || !strcmp(cleanup_arg, "default"))
 		cleanup_mode = use_editor ? CLEANUP_ALL : CLEANUP_SPACE;
 	else if (!strcmp(cleanup_arg, "verbatim"))

builtin/log.c

@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static void show_rev_tweak_rev(struct rev_info *rev, struct setup_revision_opt *
 		/* There was no "-m" on the command line */
 		rev->ignore_merges = 0;
 		if (!rev->first_parent_only && !rev->combine_merges) {
-			/* No "--first-parent", "-c", nor "--cc" */
+			/* No "--first-parent", "-c", or "--cc" */
 			rev->combine_merges = 1;
 			rev->dense_combined_merges = 1;
 		}

builtin/pack-objects.c

@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ static int pbase_tree_cache_ix_incr(int ix)
 static struct pbase_tree {
 	struct pbase_tree *next;
 	/* This is a phony "cache" entry; we are not
-	 * going to evict it nor find it through _get()
+	 * going to evict it or find it through _get()
 	 * mechanism -- this is for the toplevel node that
 	 * would almost always change with any commit.
 	 */

column.c

@@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ static int parse_config(unsigned int *colopts, const char *value)
 		value += strspn(value, sep);
 	}
 	/*
-	 * Setting layout implies "always" if neither always, never
+	 * If none of "always", "never", and "auto" is specified, then setting
-	 * nor auto is specified.
+	 * layout implies "always".
 	 *
 	 * Current value in COL_ENABLE_MASK is disregarded. This means if
 	 * you set column.ui = auto and pass --column=row, then "auto"

contrib/examples/git-checkout.sh

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ cd_to_toplevel
 # branch.  However, if "git checkout HEAD" detaches the HEAD
 # from the current branch, even though that may be logically
 # correct, it feels somewhat funny.  More importantly, we do not
-# want "git checkout" nor "git checkout -f" to detach HEAD.
+# want "git checkout" or "git checkout -f" to detach HEAD.
 
 detached=
 detach_warn=

contrib/examples/git-commit.sh

@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ case "$#,$also,$only,$amend" in
 0,,,*)
 	;;
 *,,,*)
-	only_include_assumed="# Explicit paths specified without -i nor -o; assuming --only paths..."
+	only_include_assumed="# Explicit paths specified without -i or -o; assuming --only paths..."
 	also=
 	;;
 esac

contrib/examples/git-reset.sh

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ case "$1" in --) shift ;; esac
 
 # git reset --mixed tree [--] paths... can be used to
 # load chosen paths from the tree into the index without
-# affecting the working tree nor HEAD.
+# affecting the working tree or HEAD.
 if test $# != 0
 then
 	test "$reset_type" = "--mixed" ||
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ then
 	update=-u
 fi
 
-# Soft reset does not touch the index file nor the working tree
+# Soft reset does not touch the index file or the working tree
 # at all, but requires them in a good order.  Other resets reset
 # the index file to the tree object we are switching to.
 if test "$reset_type" = "--soft"

contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl

@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ was available previously is not included in this revision, it will
 be removed.
 
 If an on-disk revision is incomplete, you can point to files from
-a previous revision. There are no restriction as to where the source
+a previous revision. There are no restrictions on where the source
-files are located, nor to the names of them.
+files are located, nor on their names.
 
  [3.files]
  ; the key is the path inside the repository, the value is the path

contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ manual page.
 NOTES
 -----
 Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for
-each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for
+each revision, nor do they record a separate display name and email
-each author.  Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name
+address for each author.  Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name
 
 ---------
 user <user@UUID>

delta.h

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ struct delta_index;
  *
  * This returns a pointer to a struct delta_index that should be passed to
  * subsequent create_delta() calls, or to free_delta_index().  A NULL pointer
- * is returned on failure.  The given buffer must not be freed nor altered
+ * is returned on failure.  The given buffer must not be freed or altered
  * before free_delta_index() is called.  The returned pointer must be freed
  * using free_delta_index().
  */

diff.c

@@ -3927,7 +3927,7 @@ static int diff_scoreopt_parse(const char *opt)
 		}
 	}
 	if (cmd != 'M' && cmd != 'C' && cmd != 'B')
-		return -1; /* that is not a -M, -C nor -B option */
+		return -1; /* that is not a -M, -C, or -B option */
 
 	opt1 = parse_rename_score(&opt);
 	if (cmd != 'B')

git-add--interactive.perl

@@ -1159,9 +1159,9 @@ sub help_patch_cmd {
 	print colored $help_color, <<EOF ;
 y - $verb this hunk$target
 n - do not $verb this hunk$target
-q - quit; do not $verb this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
+q - quit; do not $verb this hunk or any of the remaining ones
 a - $verb this hunk and all later hunks in the file
-d - do not $verb this hunk nor any of the later hunks in the file
+d - do not $verb this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file
 g - select a hunk to go to
 / - search for a hunk matching the given regex
 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk

git-am.sh

@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Use \"git am --abort\" to remove it.")"
 		esac
 	fi
 
-	# Make sure we are not given --skip, --continue, nor --abort
+	# Make sure we are not given --skip, --continue, or --abort
 	test "$skip$resolved$abort" = "" ||
 		die "$(gettext "Resolve operation not in progress, we are not resuming.")"
 

gitweb/gitweb.perl

@@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ sub is_valid_pathname {
 	my $input = shift;
 
 	return undef unless defined $input;
-	# no '.' or '..' as elements of path, i.e. no '.' nor '..'
+	# no '.' or '..' as elements of path, i.e. no '.' or '..'
 	# at the beginning, at the end, and between slashes.
 	# also this catches doubled slashes
 	if ($input =~ m!(^|/)(|\.|\.\.)(/|$)!) {

http.h

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
 /*
  * We detect based on the cURL version if multi-transfer is
  * usable in this implementation and define this symbol accordingly.
- * This is not something Makefile should set nor users should pass
+ * This shouldn't be set by the Makefile or by the user (e.g. via CFLAGS).
- * via CFLAGS.
  */
 #undef USE_CURL_MULTI
 

perl/Git/SVN.pm

@@ -480,8 +480,8 @@ sub refname {
 	# It cannot end with a slash /, we'll throw up on this because
 	# SVN can't have directories with a slash in their name, either:
 	if ($refname =~ m{/$}) {
-		die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash, this is ",
+		die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash; this is ",
-		    "not permitted by git nor Subversion\n";
+		    "not permitted by git or Subversion\n";
 	}
 
 	# It cannot have ASCII control character space, tilde ~, caret ^,
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ sub do_fetch {
 		# we can have a branch that was deleted, then re-added
 		# under the same name but copied from another path, in
 		# which case we'll have multiple parents (we don't
-		# want to break the original ref, nor lose copypath info):
+		# want to break the original ref or lose copypath info):
 		if (my $log_entry = $self->find_parent_branch($paths, $rev)) {
 			push @{$log_entry->{parents}}, $lc;
 			return $log_entry;

perl/Git/SVN/Migration.pm

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package Git::SVN::Migration;
 # these version numbers do NOT correspond to actual version numbers
-# of git nor git-svn.  They are just relative.
+# of git or git-svn.  They are just relative.
 #
 # v0 layout: .git/$id/info/url, refs/heads/$id-HEAD
 #

pkt-line.h

@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((f
  * Read a packetized line into the buffer, which must be at least size bytes
  * long. The return value specifies the number of bytes read into the buffer.
  *
- * If src_buffer is not NULL (and nor is *src_buffer), it should point to a
+ * If src_buffer and *src_buffer are not NULL, it should point to a buffer
- * buffer containing the packet data to parse, of at least *src_len bytes.
+ * containing the packet data to parse, of at least *src_len bytes.  After the
- * After the function returns, src_buf will be incremented and src_len
+ * function returns, src_buf will be incremented and src_len decremented by the
- * decremented by the number of bytes consumed.
+ * number of bytes consumed.
  *
  * If src_buffer (or *src_buffer) is NULL, then data is read from the
  * descriptor "fd".

remote.c

@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ int match_push_refs(struct ref *src, struct ref **dst,
 				/*
 				 * Remote doesn't have it, and we have no
 				 * explicit pattern, and we don't have
-				 * --all nor --mirror.
+				 * --all or --mirror.
 				 */
 				goto free_name;
 

sha1_file.c

@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ void close_pack_index(struct packed_git *p)
  * contain the same set of objects as an existing one.  In that case
  * the resulting file might be different even if its name would be the
  * same.  It is best to close any reference to the old pack before it is
- * replaced on disk.  Of course no index pointers nor windows for given pack
+ * replaced on disk.  Of course no index pointers or windows for given pack
  * must subsist at this point.  If ever objects from this pack are requested
  * again, the new version of the pack will be reinitialized through
  * reprepare_packed_git().
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ static void report_helper(const struct string_list *list,
 	const char *msg;
 	switch (seen_bits) {
 	case 0:
-		msg = "no corresponding .idx nor .pack";
+		msg = "no corresponding .idx or .pack";
 		break;
 	case 1:
 		msg = "no corresponding .idx";

t/t1001-read-tree-m-2way.sh

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ In the test, these paths are used:
         frotz   - not in H added in M
         nitfol  - in H, stays in M unmodified
         rezrov  - in H, deleted in M
-        yomin   - not in H nor M
+	yomin   - not in H or M
 '
 . ./test-lib.sh
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-read-tree.sh

t/t4005-diff-rename-2.sh

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ test_expect_success \
 
 # tree has COPYING and rezrov.  work tree has the same COPYING and
 # copy-edited COPYING.1, and unchanged rezrov.  We should not say
-# anything about rezrov nor COPYING, since the revised again diff-raw
+# anything about rezrov or COPYING, since the revised again diff-raw
 # nows how to say Copy.
 
 test_expect_success \

t/t4009-diff-rename-4.sh

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ test_expect_success \
 
 # tree has COPYING and rezrov.  work tree has the same COPYING and
 # copy-edited COPYING.1, and unchanged rezrov.  We should not say
-# anything about rezrov nor COPYING, since the revised again diff-raw
+# anything about rezrov or COPYING, since the revised again diff-raw
 # nows how to say Copy.
 
 test_expect_success \

t/t5304-prune.sh

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ test_expect_success 'garbage report in count-objects -v' '
 warning: garbage found: .git/objects/pack/fake.bar
 warning: garbage found: .git/objects/pack/foo
 warning: garbage found: .git/objects/pack/foo.bar
-warning: no corresponding .idx nor .pack: .git/objects/pack/fake2.keep
+warning: no corresponding .idx or .pack: .git/objects/pack/fake2.keep
 warning: no corresponding .idx: .git/objects/pack/foo.keep
 warning: no corresponding .idx: .git/objects/pack/foo.pack
 warning: no corresponding .pack: .git/objects/pack/fake3.idx

t/t6036-recursive-corner-cases.sh

@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ test_expect_failure 'git detects conflict w/ criss-cross+contrived resolution' '
 
 #
 # criss-cross + d/f conflict via add/add:
-#   Commit A: Neither file 'a' nor directory 'a/' exist.
+#   Commit A: Neither file 'a' nor directory 'a/' exists.
 #   Commit B: Introduce 'a'
 #   Commit C: Introduce 'a/file'
 #   Commit D: Merge B & C, keeping 'a' and deleting 'a/'

t/t7104-reset-hard.sh

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ test_expect_success 'reset --hard should restore unmerged ones' '
 
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'reset --hard did not corrupt index nor cached-tree' '
+test_expect_success 'reset --hard did not corrupt index or cached-tree' '
 
 	T=$(git write-tree) &&
 	rm -f .git/index &&

t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh

@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cvs co -c (shows module database)' '
 # Known issues with git-cvsserver current log output:
 #  - Hard coded "lines: +2 -3" placeholder, instead of real numbers.
 #  - CVS normally does not internally add a blank first line
-#    nor a last line with nothing but a space to log messages.
+#    or a last line with nothing but a space to log messages.
 #  - The latest cvs 1.12.x server sends +0000 timezone (with some hidden "MT"
 #    tagging in the protocol), and if cvs 1.12.x client sees the MT tags,
 #    it converts to local time zone.  git-cvsserver doesn't do the +0000

test-chmtime.c

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * This program can either change modification time of the given
- * file(s) or just print it. The program does not change atime nor
+ * file(s) or just print it. The program does not change atime or
  * ctime (their values are explicitly preserved).
  *
  * The mtime can be changed to an absolute value: