On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When people talk about the staging area I tend to get confused. ÂI > think there's an idea that because it sounds more concrete, there is > less to explain --- or maybe I am just wired the wrong way. I don't like the phrase "staging area". A "stage" already has an area. You put things on the stage. Sometimes there are multiple stages. > There is a .git/index file, with a well defined file format. ÂAnd > there is an in-core copy of the index, too. ÂIt contains: > > Â- mode and blob name for paths as requested by the user with > Â "git add" A commit stage. > Â- competing versions for paths whose proposed content is > Â uncertain during a merge Multiple commit stages. > Â- stat(2) information to speed up comparison with the worktree If only a subset of the files are there, it's an 'index', if not, then I'd say it's a 'registry'. Anyway, it's something the user shouldn't care about. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html