Hi, On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > David Abrahams <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > For example, why couldn't the "index" be called the "stage" instead? > > That, along with knowing that "git add" was a synonym for "git stage" > > would have flattened the learning curve considerably for me. > > Historical reasons... > > Waaay back the "index" was an index of the files git knows about in > your working directory. It made sense to call it an index, as like > a book index it was a full listing of what's here, sorted by name. > > That's pre-1.0 days. Like the very first version Linus ever > released. Aka commit e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290. Actually, it was known by the name "dircache" back then :-) Ciao, Dscho -- 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
