From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 16:47:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-scm.com refresh
Message-ID: <CAMP44s17CYY-eoQKeEGDRQ5B+d_vni0GDpKcSjKRmoxjTFYwsg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd36j8lc3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> It seems that you are trying to advocate "staging area" as some sort of
> official term.  I think "it is like a staging area" is a good phrase to
> use when answering "what is the index?", but I think repeating it million
> times without telling the casual readers what its official name is is
> counterproductive.  Don't do that.  It will confuse these same people when
> they start reading manuals.

I think keeping the name 'index' is what is counter-productive. I
think most users don't even need to hear the term 'index' in order to
interact with the staging area in common operations, so they won't ask
"what is the index?".

-- 
Felipe Contreras