From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:53:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index
Message-ID: <1298926426.29337.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3rV6vejf=aRvysvxr4qn_UJxUqiQiTB0AG-vp@mail.gmail.com>


On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 16:16 -0500, Aghiles wrote:
> > FWIW, when teaching Git I have found that users immediately understand
> > "staging area", while "index" and "cache" confuse them.
> 
> FWIW, same here.

I would really like to hear the actual presentation. What one says in
person in front of a classroom and what one puts in a manpage are
frequently not the same thing--and there's a good reason for that. 
If nothing else, we could come up with a better presentation at the end!

-- 
-Drew Northup
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