On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson <swansontec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. +1 for staging area > > 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. the same feeling. -- 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