On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems that you are trying to advocate "staging area" as some sort of > official term. I think "it is like a staging area" is a good phrase to > use when answering "what is the index?", but I think repeating it million > times without telling the casual readers what its official name is is > counterproductive. Don't do that. It will confuse these same people when > they start reading manuals. I think keeping the name 'index' is what is counter-productive. I think most users don't even need to hear the term 'index' in order to interact with the staging area in common operations, so they won't ask "what is the index?". -- 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