From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:55:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp1pb3e1.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <662C691D-7263-4469-87F4-4BA8A50CC4E8@dwheeler.com>
On Thu, Dec 14 2017, David A. Wheeler jotted:
> On December 13, 2017 7:54:04 AM EST, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>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...
>
> Yes, this would be part of a larger series.
>
> I'm happy to do the work, but I don't want to do it if it's just going to be rejected.
>
> The work is very straightforward, in almost all cases you simply replace the word index with the phrase staging area. The change is similar for the word cache. So I'm not sure what seeing it all at once would do for anybody.
>
> Are there one or two other files that you would like to see transformed to see as an example? If you're just looking for a sense of it, that should be enough.
No I get the idea, I'm just wondering if you'll continue to work on
this, because if not mentioning "staging area" in more places without
continuing to eradicate "index" isn't going to improve things much, and
possibly make it worse. I like the direction of this series.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 2:32 [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area" David A. Wheeler
2017-12-13 5:40 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-13 5:46 ` David A. Wheeler
2017-12-13 12:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-14 17:48 ` David A. Wheeler
2017-12-14 17:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2017-12-14 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-14 18:24 ` Stefan Beller
2017-12-14 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-14 19:05 ` David A. Wheeler
2017-12-14 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <E1ePark-0008P4-Qx@rmmprod07.runbox>
2017-12-14 21:28 ` Stefan Beller
2017-12-14 19:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-13 17:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 18:46 ` David A. Wheeler
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