From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:08:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5XDKwwXWtH8V9QD5v-4i+nHPuZ8x2n_Z3zuexQmg2mgw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:46 AM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> wrote:
>> On December 13, 2017 12:40:12 AM EST, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>I know we've used various terms for this concept across a lot of the
>>>documentation. However, I was under the impression that we most
>>>explicitly used "index" rather than "staging area".
>>
>> I think "staging area" is the better term. It focuses on its purpose, and it is also less confusing ("index" and "cache" have other meanings in many of the repos managed by git).
>
> After your patch the majority of the docs will still talk about
> "index", is this part of some larger series, perhaps it would be good
> to see it all at once...

... or none of it.  I do not quite see a point of spending list
bandwidth on a change like this one.