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List:       git
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"
From:       Junio C Hamano <gitster () pobox ! com>
Date:       2017-12-14 18:08:46
Message-ID: xmqq6099uqq9.fsf () gitster ! mtv ! corp ! google ! com
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:46 AM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.co=
m> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> 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...

... or none of it.  I do not quite see a point of spending list
bandwidth on a change like this one.
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