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Re: friendlier names

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 27, 2009, 15:33 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
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>
> 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.
+1

I think several people have mentioned it, and there have been different possible actions, but nothing concrete AFAIK.

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Felipe Contreras
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