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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:40:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrWFE+6t-Z8cGQX5WtZP1_EQSa+J7vF65dLDSOnLfFxXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1eOwqn-0005Bd-OB@rmmprod05.runbox>

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:32 PM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> wrote:
> Change the documentation of git-add so that it consistently uses
> the phrase "staging area".  The current git documentation uses
> inconsistent terminology ("index", "cache", and "staging area").
> This commit switches git-add's documentation to consistently use
> the phrase "staging area", which is higher-level and should be less
> confusing for new users.
>

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".

Additionally, I think there are many other locations which
consistently use "index" as the term already.

Thanks,
Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13  5:40 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 [this message]
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
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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