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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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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).


--- David A.Wheeler