From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:34:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docs
Message-ID: <7voe4svufi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4373EFFB.6060802@etek.chalmers.se>

Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se> writes:

> 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".