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-This script will be run with `set -euo pipefail`, and the commit will be considered correct if the script exits succesfully.
+This script will be run with `set -euo pipefail`, and the commit will be considered correct if the script exits successfully.
 
 You can technically assert that a command fails by writing `! ... || exit 1`, or write assertions about a command's output by piping it to `grep`, but doing so won't lead to very useful error messages when things go wrong. To make those things easier, there are some helper functions included, which are inspired by [bats](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core) and [bats-assert](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert):