On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:27 +0100, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:11:11 +0100, David <bouncingcats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > A suggestion: could your conceptual bucket be named as "the precommit". > > > > Motives for this suggestion are: > > 1) I imagine this word will be readily translatable; > > Less so than âstaging areaâ, at least into Russian. > > Just my two cents. I was starting to think about "commit preparation area" this morning, but it sounds horribly long. Would "Prep area" work provided that the longer version has already been introduced into the discussion? This provides a similar language metaphor to "staging area" hopefully without the translation problem. Also, I still think that it is important to note somewhere that the way that git handles commits is not the way that most users are likely to imagine (the Index doesn't contain the blob objects itself; a finalized commit is not just a bundled collection of everything as somebody might expect; etc) so this "Prep area" is a logical space not completely analogous to stuff found in the ".git" directory. Pretending that complexity does not exist will not help; letting the users know that they don't need to grok all of the details to get started is, on the other hand, quite important. (Reconstructing the CC list... let me know if I left you out, spammed you, etc...) -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- 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