Re: Recent documentation patches, and an RFC on terminology

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Apr 24, 2010, 13:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004240903060.7232@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3xpqppa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Eric Raymond wrote:
> >
> >> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:
> >> >                   (your other mail didn't make it to me yet, so I
> >> > couldn't quickly look up how you differentiate between the "staging
> >> > area" and the index).
> >> 
> >> *Groan*...is the Great Galactic Ghoul randomly eating my patch submissions
> >> again? I'll check the archives...
> >> 
> >> Basically, I changed the docs to use "staging area" when talking about 
> >> workflow and "index" only when describing implementation.
> >
> > If so that should be a good thing.
> 
> Do you mean that Ghoul did a good thing to eat such a change?

:-)

I meant that the proposed change to the doc as described above should be a good change.

Nicolas