Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:45:27PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > When I say literally everbody agreed to move away from the name "index" (except > > Junio and another guy) I mean it. I even composed a list: > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233469 > > > > Jeff King, Jonathan Nieder, Matthieu Moy, they all agreed. > > With reference to my name, your email says: > > Jeff King: > "staging area" makes perfect sense > > But here's that statement in context[1]: > > So the term "staging area" makes perfect sense to me; it is where we > collect changes to make a commit. I am willing to accept that does not > to others (native English speakers or no), and that we may need to > come up with a better term. But I think just calling it "the stage" is > even worse; it loses the concept that it is a place for collecting and > organizing. > > In other words, I was saying that the term makes sense to me, and > primarily comparing favorably to a worse proposal. I am not commenting > at all on a plan to change names, which is what you are claiming above. > > I do think the term "staging area" is fine, but picking a term is only > step one of a plan. The rest is deciding how to make the change, and > whether it is worth it. I remain undecided on the latter bits. Please > don't quote me out of context in a way that implies that I am decided. I specifically said everybody agreed to "move away from the name 'index'", I didn't say everybody agreed on the "staged area" although the vast majority did, and I didn't say anybody agreed on my patches, although some did. I think I was clear. -- 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