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Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2017, 17:55 UTC
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On Thu, Dec 14 2017, David A. Wheeler jotted:
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> On December 13, 2017 7:54:04 AM EST, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>After your patch the majority of the docs will still talk about
>>"index", is this part of some larger series, perhaps it would be good
>>to see it all at once...
>
> Yes, this would be part of a larger series.
>
> I'm happy to do the work, but I don't want to do it if it's just going to be rejected.
>
> The work is very straightforward, in almost all cases you simply replace the word index with the phrase staging area.  The change is similar for the word cache.  So I'm not sure what seeing it all at once would do for anybody.
>
> Are there one or two other files that you would like to see transformed to see as an example?  If you're just looking for a sense of it, that should be enough.

No I get the idea, I'm just wondering if you'll continue to work on this, because if not mentioning "staging area" in more places without continuing to eradicate "index" isn't going to improve things much, and possibly make it worse. I like the direction of this series.

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  1. doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"David A. Wheeler, Dec 13, 2017
  2. Jacob KellerDec 13, 2017
  3. David A. WheelerDec 13, 2017
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 13, 2017
  5. David A. WheelerDec 14, 2017
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 14, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2017
  8. Stefan BellerDec 14, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2017
  10. David A. WheelerDec 14, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2017
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 14, 2017
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2017
  14. David A. WheelerDec 13, 2017
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