From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [1.8.0] use 'stage' term consistently Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 19:25:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7v1umv7ub0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v62c71fl7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=F0?= , git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder , Jeff King , Scott Chacon , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Jakub =?utf-8?Q?Nar=C4=99bski?= , Johannes Schindelin , Piotr Krukowiecki To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 19:26:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SSAeP-0000n0-29 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2012 19:26:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760543Ab2EIR0D (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 13:26:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:34391 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760478Ab2EIR0B (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 13:26:01 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q49HI0W8020728 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 May 2012 19:18:00 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SSAdX-0006FU-1w; Wed, 09 May 2012 19:25:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Felipe Contreras's message of "Wed, 9 May 2012 15:10:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Wed, 09 May 2012 19:18:00 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q49HI0W8020728 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1337188684.872@NVVZ0qpm/p/iPl913uMNTQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras writes: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The word "index" is quite well understood: that which points at the >> information given a headword that refers to it, which is exactly what the >> "index" we have is. On the other hand, "to stage/staging area" is not as >> widely used outside the narrow shipping/logistics circles. > > That's what git has, *internally*, but that's not how high-level users > interact with it. I agree with that. Explaining users that the is the place where you stage content in preparation for the next commit is much more productive than explaining that it is an array of (name, sha1sum) pairs. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/