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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2013, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2cba_UGmYJuwf9kw-OG4FQz6eRefRC0xa7pnx6ctFRjw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Here are the threads once again:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197111
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166675
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115666
>
> I take it you still haven't read those threads, and you don't plan to.
> So I have to go through each and every comment and summarize what each
> person concluded.
>
> Hopefully you would come back to me before I waste my time, but it
> seems there's no other way to make you see the reality of what was
> actually already discussed and agreed.

So here's the summary, as I said, *everybody* is in favor of "staging area" or something other than "index", with the exception of Drew Northup, I've put a summary of the conclusion of each person that voiced an opinion on the matter, and I've CC'ed them here, so they can reiterate their opinion, or clarify it.

Junio, do you accept that virtually *everyone* is in favor of "staging area" now?

== Against ==

Drew Northup: index is good

== For ==

Jay Soffian: staging area is better

Pete Harlan: Aghiles: "staging area" is good for teaching

Piotr Krukowiecki: "staging area" makes sense

Jonathan Nieder: "staging area" is better than "index"

Jeff King: "staging area" makes perfect sense

Miles Bader: "staging area" is good

Phil Hord: "staging area" is better than index/cache

Victor Engmark: maybe "git bucket"

David (bouncingcats): maybe "precommit"

Alexey Feldgendler: "staging area" translates better into Russian (than precommit)

Alexei Sholik: "staging area" is better

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: "staging area" is better

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: In Icelandic "index/stage" is translated to "the commit area"

Sebastien Douche: "stage" is better than "cache"/"index"

Thiago Farina: "precommit" is better

Mark Lodato: "staging" is the most appropriate

Philip Oakley: "staging area" is OK

Matthieu Moy: something needs to be done

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Felipe Contreras