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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2013, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s0Lv+HTFt6RxyRehfA_NpSPtnr2v4EnAO_vxQcOtQZLbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>> IIRC, when this was discussed, many non-native speakers had trouble
>> with the verb "to stage", not just from i18n/l10n point of view.
>
> Well, you recall incorrectly.
>
> There was *A SINGLE* non-native speaker that complained, about
> "stage", not "staging area", Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, and he even said
> he had already translated index/cache to "the commit area"[1].

Actually, not only did Ævar not have a problem with "staging area", but he told you this argument about i18n/l10n didn't make sense at all, and you agreed:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197371

In fact, all non-native speakers said they liked the term "staging area", like everybody else.

So please enlighten us, which non-native speakers had a problem from the translation point of view, and why does it matter?

-- 
Felipe Contreras