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Re: Recent documentation patches, and an RFC on terminology

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Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 23, 2010, 22:14 UTC
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On 2010.04.23 17:54:48 -0400, Eric Raymond wrote:
> We may have an opportunity to improve on the term "staging area".  As
> I reflect on it, I think replacing that with the term "depot" might
> not be a bad idea.

IIRC Perforce already uses the term "depot" for something that's not quite git's index (your other mail didn't make it to me yet, so I couldn't quickly look up how you differentiate between the "staging area" and the index). There have been people in #git that used the term "depot", and till now I simply guessed that they meant "repository", and that seemed to fit. Introducing git's own definition of "depot" will probably cause confusion when talking to (former) perforce users, so I'd rather avoid that term.

Björn
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