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Re: Recent documentation patches, and an RFC on terminology

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 24, 2010, 07:23 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
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> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Eric Raymond wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> If so that should be a good thing.
Do you mean that Ghoul did a good thing to eat such a change?
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  1. Eric RaymondApr 23, 2010
  2. Björn SteinbrinkApr 23, 2010
  3. Eric RaymondApr 23, 2010
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 23, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreApr 24, 2010
  7. Adam BrewsterApr 24, 2010
  8. AghilesApr 25, 2010

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