On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:
> From: "Felipe Contreras"
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:33 AM
> [snip...]
>
>> The snapshot concept is totally orthogonal from the staging area
>> concept. Git works in snapshots, which are frozen images of how the
>> content tree was a
From: "Felipe Contreras"
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:33 AM
[snip...]
The snapshot concept is totally orthogonal from the staging area
concept. Git works in snapshots, which are frozen images of how the
content tree was at a certain point in time; IOW; a commit.
(I feel that) In most peo
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Drew Northup wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Felipe Contreras writes:
> It has been discussed ma
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Drew Northup wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
> wrote:
>> Drew Northup napisał:
>>>I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the
>>>documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user
>>>needs to build a mod
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Drew Northup wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
> wrote:
>> Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
>> http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
>>
>> The author does not use the
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
wrote:
> Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
> http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
>
> The author does not use the use the word "index" at all. Instead he
> writes in followin
On 6 September 2013 08:45, Ping Yin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
>> wrote:
>>> It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
>>> appropriate description for what the high-level user doe
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
> 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
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
wrote:
> Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
> http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
>
> The author does not use the use the word "index" at all. Instead he
> writes in followin
Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
The author does not use the use the word "index" at all. Instead he
writes in following way:
---
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
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
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Felipe Contreras writes:
>>>
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate de
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
wrote:
> Drew Northup napisał:
>>I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the
>>documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user
>>needs to build a model in their mind of what they are doing which maps
>>enough (c
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:46 AM, René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 29.08.2013 22:36, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe wrote:
>>>
>>> If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,
>>> unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts wi
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:46 AM, René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 29.08.2013 22:36, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe wrote:
>>>
>>> If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,
>>> unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts wit
Am 29.08.2013 22:36, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe wrote:
If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,
unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts with --work, too. So you
can have a descriptive, extra-long option and ty
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Felipe Contreras
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> wrote:
>
>>> Here are the threads once again:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197111
>>> ht
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
> wrote:
>> Here are the threads once again:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197111
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166675
>> http:/
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> IIRC, when this was discussed, many non-native speakers had trouble
>> with the verb "to stage", not just from i18n/l10n point of view.
>
> Well, you recall incorrectly.
>
> There
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
wrote:
> Again, *everyone* has agreed that index needs to be renamed, and
> "staging area" is the best option.
>
> Do I really need to go through all the discussions and list each and
> every person that participated in them, and show to you how e
Drew Northup napisał:
>I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the
>documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user
>needs to build a model in their mind of what they are doing which maps
>enough (completely is not required) to what is actually going on to
>get w
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras writes:
>>
>>> 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 h
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Contreras writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> "add
Felipe Contreras writes:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
>> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git
>> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar).
>
> Yes, --work sounds we
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
>>
>> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>
>>> Felipe Contreras writes:
Moreover, the --stage and --work
>>>
>>>
>>> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
>>> "work
Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
Matthieu Moy wrote:
Felipe Contreras writes:
Moreover, the --stage and --work
--work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
"working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git
already has a global op
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Contreras writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> "add
Felipe Contreras writes:
> add an explanation in Documentation/gitstagingarea.txt
> or something.
There's Documentation/gitcli.txt, that will need updating anyway (at the
bottom, it talks about --cached and --index).
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Felipe Contreras writes:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> These explanations make sense. I think it would be better to put part of
>> it in commit messages, so that future contributors can "git blame" the
>> doc/implem of these --stage and find them (i.e. avoid the
>> misunderstanding that occured with "
Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Felipe Contreras writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for working on this. No time
Felipe Contreras writes:
> 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.
Thanks for working on this. No time for a really detailed review, but
Felipe Contreras writes:
> 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.
"add" is the verb, not "index" (which is a noun that refers
to the th
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