On 6 September 2013 08:45, Ping Yin <pkufra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson <swanson...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras >> <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> 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
As yet another "just a user", I'd like to add my enthusiastic support for "to stage" and "staging area". I'm guessing that a lot of Git devs/long time users are simply so used to its interface that they may not see its sharp corners any more. :-) That's quite natural and bound to happen to anyone who works with a particular tool for a long time. Still, (e.g.) "git add -A" removing files (as useful as that is) is just weird. And, in general, the user should not need to know how Git is implemented. >> 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. Ditto. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
