please make the commit log clean

Hi, Chet. I'm a beginner with Bash and recently stumbled upon the Bash code repository (specifically the 'devel' branch). I noticed that almost every commit includes thousands of lines of changes. Out of curiosity, I randomly clicked on one of the commits (e.g.,

Re: Potentially misleading documentation of SECONDS variable

The fundamental problem of using phrases like "the run time of the current process" is that there's NO POSSIBLE adjectival qualifier that can be added to such a phrase such that the combination correctly describes the actual operation. What's needed is a statement that the value of SECONDS is the