From: Matthieu Moy Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:46:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Officially start moving to the term 'staging area' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: I'm lacking time to read and answer in detail, sorry. Junio C Hamano writes: > "It must be done" is different from "any change is good, as long as > it introduces more instances of word 'stage'". I agree. Something must be done, at least to remove the cache Vs index confusion. I'm not sure exactly what's best, and we should agree where to go before going there. The previous attempts to introduce more "stage" in Git's command-line (e.g. the "git stage" alias) introduced more confusion than anything else. > The phrase "staging area" is not an everyday phrase or common CS > lingo, and that unfortunately makes it a suboptimal choice of words > especially to those of us, to whom a large portion of their exposure > to the English language is through the command words we use when we > talk to our computers. I do not think being understandable immediately by non-native is so important actually. To me as a french, "commit" makes no sense as an english word to describe what "git commit" does, but it's OK as I never really translate it. Even fr.po translates "a commit" by "un commit". That said, having something that immediately makes sense to a non-native is obviously a good point. Another proposal which I liked BTW was to use the word "precommit". Short, and easily understood as the place where the next commit is prepared. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/