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Re: [PATCH v2 try2 00/14] Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

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HWHilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
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Apr 26, 2014, 01:33 UTC
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On 25 April 2014 11:12, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>
> The term 'staging area' is more intuitive for newcomers which are more
> familiar with English than with Git, and it seems to be a
> straightforward mental notion for people with different mother tongues.
>
> In fact it is so intuitive that it's used already in a lot online
> documentation, and the people that do teach Git professionally use this
> term, because it's easier for many kinds of audiences to grasp.

While the implementation looks okay to me, I will not pretend to be a good judge of that so I will leave that to others. But I definitely welcome the API change this produces.

Previous: Felipe Contreras
Message 16 of 16 in “Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'”
  1. 00/14 Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'Felipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  2. 01/14 Add proper 'stage' commandFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  3. 02/14 stage: add edit commandFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  4. 03/14 diff: document --stagedFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  5. 04/14 grep: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  6. 05/14 rm: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  7. 06/14 stash: add --stage option to saveFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  8. 07/14 stash: add --stage to pop and applyFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  9. 08/14 submodule: add --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  10. 09/14 apply: add --stage optionFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  11. 10/14 apply: add --work, --no-work optionsFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  12. 11/14 completion: update --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  13. 12/14 reset: add --stage and --work optionsFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  14. 13/14 reset: allow --keep with --stageFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  15. 14/14 completion: update 'git reset' new stage optionsFelipe Contreras, Apr 25, 2014
  16. Hilco WijbengaApr 26, 2014

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