ericdahl-dev/.github

Organization-wide GitHub configuration.

American spelling check

Every repo uses American spelling (color, center, canceled, analyze, gray...). The American spelling workflow (.github/workflows/american-spelling.yml) runs the public spelling-dialect action on pull requests. The org ruleset requires it, so a PR can't merge while its repo contains British spellings.

It reads every tracked text file word by word, including inside identifiers (colour_edges, AudioAnalyser, scanCancelled), and prints file:line: word -> fix.

Run it locally on any repo:

pipx run --spec git+https://github.com/ericdahl-dev/spelling-dialect spelling-dialect .

Exceptions

• One line: add spelling: ok to it (e.g. when quoting an external name).

• One file: put spelling: skip-file in its first five lines.

• A repo: add .spelling-dialect at its root (the older .american-spelling-allow also works):

  # a third-party API or a value stored in the database is spelled this way
  cancelled
  # vendored code
  path: lib/unity/
  

  Allowed words match case-insensitively, also inside identifiers. Use them for names you don't control: stored data values, external API fields, vendored code. Platform names that are British by definition (AnalyserNode, CancelledError, isCancelled, GitHub Actions' cancelled) are always allowed. See the spelling-dialect README.