Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > So the term "staging area" makes perfect sense to me; it is where we > collect changes to make a commit. I am willing to accept that does not > to others (native English speakers or no), and that we may need to come > up with a better term. But I think just calling it "the stage" is even > worse; it loses the concept that it is a place for collecting and > organizing. Agreed. "Staging area" is a good noun (phrase) for this. "Stage" is a good verb (for "move into the staging area"), but isn't intuitive as a noun. -miles -- In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. [George Carlin] -- 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