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Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2013, 22:51 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> tl;dr: everyone except Junio C Hamano and Drew Northup agrees; we should move
> away from the name "the index".

Junio, can you make an exception and reply to this thread? The change to move away from the term "the index" has been suggested many times since many years ago, it is an extremely important change to users, and all the Git developers agree it must be done.

Virtually everyone has agreed already that the term "staging area" is the best option and this patch series is a good first step. Other than the --work patches, this series could easily be merged to the 'pu' branch. Yet not only is this series not there, but you haven't said what needs to be done to get there.

It has been more than a month that I demonstrated to you that virtual nobody has any problems with moving away from term "the index"[1][2], and yet you haven't even responded.

I'm not even asking about this series, all I want to know is if any change that tries to move away from the term "the index" towards "staging area" would ever be considered for inclusion. Yes or no.

All I want is a simple answer to a simple question. Is that too much to ask?

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233469 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233468

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Felipe Contreras
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Message 5 of 30 in “completion: update 'git reset' new stage options”
  1. 14/14 completion: update 'git reset' new stage optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  2. 04/14 grep: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  3. 07/14 stash: add --stage to pop and applyFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  4. 00/14 Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'Felipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  5. Felipe ContrerasOct 14, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2013
  7. Felipe ContrerasOct 17, 2013
  8. Matthieu MoyOct 18, 2013
  9. John SzakmeisterOct 18, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasOct 18, 2013
  11. Max HornOct 18, 2013
  12. Karsten BleesOct 18, 2013
  13. Felipe ContrerasOct 19, 2013
  14. Philip OakleyOct 19, 2013
  15. Karsten BleesOct 24, 2013
  16. Andreas KreyOct 24, 2013
  17. Felipe ContrerasOct 24, 2013
  18. 10/14 apply: add --work, --no-work optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  19. 01/14 Add proper 'stage' commandFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  20. Eric SunshineOct 14, 2013
  21. Felipe ContrerasOct 14, 2013
  22. 09/14 apply: add --stage optionFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  23. 03/14 diff: document --stagedFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  24. 05/14 rm: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  25. 02/14 stage: add edit commandFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  26. 13/14 reset: allow --keep with --stageFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  27. 12/14 reset: add --stage and --work optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  28. 08/14 submodule: add --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  29. 11/14 completion: update --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013
  30. 06/14 stash: add --stage option to saveFelipe Contreras, Oct 14, 2013

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