Add codespell config and workflow + just few typo fixes (#1166)

* Add codespell config to ignore some hits etc

Author: yarikoptic

.codespellrc

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[codespell]
+skip = *.css*,.git,build
+# many short "words-like" non-words are used in the project as variables/args
+# hel - used in a test, cannot exclude in-line yet
+# cachable - historically happened
+# falsy - too cute although used only once and could be made strict bool
+# doas - used as argument to some call in WebHDFS
+ignore-words-list = fo,dne,fro,hel,cachable,falsy,doas

.github/workflows/codespell.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+name: Codespell
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [master]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [master]
+
+jobs:
+  codespell:
+    name: Check for spelling errors
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Codespell
+        uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@v1

fsspec/registry.py

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def register_implementation(name, cls, clobber=True, errtxt=None):
         "class": "fsspec_xrootd.XRootDFileSystem",
         "err": "Install fsspec-xrootd to access xrootd storage system."
         + " Note: 'root' is the protocol name for xrootd storage systems,"
-        + " not refering to root directories",
+        + " not referring to root directories",
     },
 }
 

versioneer.py

@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, runner=run_command):
         # TAG-NUM-gHEX
         mo = re.search(r'^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$', git_describe)
         if not mo:
-            # unparseable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
             pieces["error"] = ("unable to parse git-describe output: '%%s'"
                                %% describe_out)
             return pieces
@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, runner=run_command):
         # TAG-NUM-gHEX
         mo = re.search(r"^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$", git_describe)
         if not mo:
-            # unparseable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
             pieces["error"] = "unable to parse git-describe output: '%s'" % describe_out
             return pieces