From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:25:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] use 'stage' term consistently
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In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0DRrqMdHzOBTeQGmKtP7LzFerLZTaNgbHfj0XtebW9wA@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> The word "index" is quite well understood: that which points at the
>> information given a headword that refers to it, which is exactly what the
>> "index" we have is. On the other hand, "to stage/staging area" is not as
>> widely used outside the narrow shipping/logistics circles.
>
> That's what git has, *internally*, but that's not how high-level users
> interact with it.

I agree with that. Explaining users that the <whatever you call it> is
the place where you stage content in preparation for the next commit is
much more productive than explaining that it is an array of
(name, sha1sum) pairs.

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