On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:44:00PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> * --cached means work only on index and ignore work tree. > > > > I guess I could live with "--staged" as a synonym for "--cached" (and > > maybe deprecating "--cached"). > > It makes more sense to me. > > For me, a "cache" is a fast-access copy of something, that I can > rebuild at any time. Cache should be only a matter of performance, if > the "cache" for an application changes its functionality, it means the > cache has been too optimistic. Git's index is not that, "git add" > means "add this to the index", which itself means "put that in the > list of things to commit", and not "get a copy of that to work faster > with it". Yes, the index differs from the work tree or HEAD temporarily, but most of it's life it's just a fast-access copy of something that you can rebuild at any time. So it's partly a "cache", partly a "staging area", and "index" is as good a term for it as any. --b. - 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
