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

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> wrote:

<DR DOBBS QUOTE>

NP. What he writes [in that quote at least] is entirely reasonable. In fact, oddly enough (as I presume you meant it as a refutation), it can be seen to support my argument: don't mess with the core code much (if at all) but fix the documentation. That's all that I've been arguing since day one. We don't need to make big huge changes in every part of the Git metaphor set to better explain what is going on to newbies and casual users. (Aside from the fact that there's a huge body of existing documentation, tools, and usage patterns that depends on the currently predominant model.)

I still argue that for a not insignificant group of users--people who are happy with the current paradigm and therefore aren't making a lot of noise--the current core metaphor is actually useful despite the name being more than just a tad bit unfortunate. Alas, for dealing with some of the advanced usage explanations it can be argued that the "staging area" metaphor (it implies _completed_ bundles ready to package into commits and ship--I envision shipping trailers being filled with _immutable_ boxes and attached to trucks) is actually harmful, but we can talk about that if there's a need.