On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an > appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and > it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term. I realize Git is not a democracy, but if the vote of a humble user counts for anything, I agree that "index" is a terrible name. I was very excited when Felipe first started this thread, since I thought Git might finally fix one of it's biggest long-standing usability problems. Calling this thing the "index" is like calling an important variable "someValue." While the name may be technically correct, it's way too generic to be useful. A name like "staging area" may not capture the whole idea, but at least it provides a good clue about what it does and how you might use it. If we change this, I'm pretty sure most of the Internet will rejoice. Only a few old-timers will be grumpy, but that's just because they don't like change in general. I have never met anybody (outside this thread) who thought the current name was a good idea. -William -- 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