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Re: [PATCH] Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docs

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 11, 2005, 01:34 UTC
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Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se> writes:
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> git-update-index.txt says:
> "Modifies the index or directory cache."
>
> I thought the index was the directory cache.
> Is git-update-index.txt badly worded or is there something
> I'm missing?

Nothing. Just 'cache' is so ingrained to the brain of some/many of us that we let it go unnoticed, with an excuse that somewhere we say "index aka cache".

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  1. Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docsLukas Sandström, Nov 11, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2005
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 11, 2005
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