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Blog post: The git staging area, the term literally everyone agrees with

Subject: Blog post: The git staging area, the term literally everyone agrees with

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Felipe Contreras· Aug 11, 2021, 04:53 UTC · lore

Hello,

I spent several man-hours re-reading 13 years of discussions regarding the term "staging area", and I detailed everything I found on this blog post.

Literally no one had a problem with the term "staging area", except one person.

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/git-staging-area-rename/

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Felipe Contreras

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