On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:20:32AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think I went overboard and ended up not using the word > "index", but eradicating the word was not my intention. Yeah, "index" is a perfectly OK word, and it's already used all over the documentation. I think what you want to avoid is a huge digression into blobs, trees, SHA1's, and the structure of the index file when you could just slip it in there without a lot of fanfare, maybe like: > +When recoring your own work, the contents of modified files in > +your working tree are staged with gitlink:git-add[1]. ^^^ ...are temporarily stored to a staging area called the "index" with... (though maybe that's a little cumbersome). Also, I don't think there's anything wrong with the verb "stage", but I think it may be a little less commonly used (in this meaning) than the term "staging area", so people might catch on faster if we started with "staging area". --b. - 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