From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:30:04 GMT
Subject: friendlier names
Message-ID: <87mydc6a2r.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com>


I'm absolutely certain I'm not the first person to have raised this
issue, so feel free to point me at the threads where I can get the
rationale... but: to me it looks like git's choice of terminology hurts
its adoption and learnability.  

For example, why couldn't the "index" be called the "stage" instead?
That, along with knowing that "git add" was a synonym for "git stage"
would have flattened the learning curve considerably for me.

Thanks,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com