From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:15:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index
Message-ID: <vpqaahf9p69.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=LPqu9zDiAJpxqC=ZCLig+aCv5ztXw668ERtH7@mail.gmail.com>

David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> writes:

> A suggestion: could your conceptual bucket be named as "the
> precommit".

I actually like it.

Maybe "precommit area", or "precommit something", because "precommit"
could be seen either as an action (like the pre-commit hook) or as a
place to put stuff.

As a non-native speaker, I didn't know what "staging area" really meant
in english, but the "area" part of the expression immediately made sense
to me. Had it been called the "foobar-ing area", I would have found it
more intuitive than cache or index ;-).

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/