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Blog post: The git staging area, the term literally everyone agrees with

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2021, 04:53 UTC
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Hello,

I spent several man-hours re-reading 13 years of discussions regarding the term "staging area", and I detailed everything I found on this blog post.

Literally no one had a problem with the term "staging area", except one person.

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/git-staging-area-rename/
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Felipe Contreras
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  1. Felipe ContrerasAug 11, 2021

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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