From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 20:15:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] use 'stage' term consistently
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3kkEn+_fhdrXyT9znNDE_u39pv1cFvZ+kLFyzOVpsjHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqtxztlhjd.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Actually Git porcelain does use 'the index' as a cache (computing),
>> i.e. as a place to store redundant information (stat data, sha-1
>> for trees with DIRC dircache extension) for faster access.
>
> This is an implementation optimization, that is not supposed to be
> visible for the user. Commands refering to the "cache" are not about
> stat data cache (e.g. "git diff --cached" is really about the content,
> not the stat cache).

Exactly; that's an implementation detail that doesn't affect how the
user actually interacts with the staging area.

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Felipe Contreras