Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:46 AM, David A. Wheeler <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On December 13, 2017 12:40:12 AM EST, Jacob Keller <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>I know we've used various terms for this concept across a lot of the >>>documentation. However, I was under the impression that we most >>>explicitly used "index" rather than "staging area". >> >> I think "staging area" is the better term. It focuses on its purpose, and it >> is also less confusing ("index" and "cache" have other meanings in many of >> the repos managed by git). > > After your patch the majority of the docs will still talk about > "index", is this part of some larger series, perhaps it would be good > to see it all at once...
... or none of it. I do not quite see a point of spending list bandwidth on a change like this one.

