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Re: Recent documentation patches, and an RFC on terminology

From
Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2010, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID
<20100423222956.GB21224@thyrsus.com>
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Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:
>                   (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).

*Groan*...is the Great Galactic Ghoul randomly eating my patch submissions again? I'll check the archives...

Basically, I changed the docs to use "staging area" when talking about workflow and "index" only when describing implementation.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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  6. Nicolas PitreApr 24, 2010
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