Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The word "index" is quite well understood: that which points at the >> information given a headword that refers to it, which is exactly what the >> "index" we have is. On the other hand, "to stage/staging area" is not as >> widely used outside the narrow shipping/logistics circles. > > That's what git has, *internally*, but that's not how high-level users > interact with it. I agree with that. Explaining users that the <whatever you call it> is the place where you stage content in preparation for the next commit is much more productive than explaining that it is an array of (name, sha1sum) pairs. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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