Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2013, 15:45 UTC
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On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson <swansontec@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
>> appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
>> it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term.
>
> I realize Git is not a democracy, but if the vote of a humble user
> counts for anything, I agree that "index" is a terrible name.

+1 for staging area

>
> I was very excited when Felipe first started this thread, since I
> thought Git might finally fix one of it's biggest long-standing
> usability problems.

the same feeling.