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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>,
	Alexey Feldgendler <alexeyf@opera.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki.news@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:53:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimX3n5PNdK9YpA92SQM7G-WAiC1aPP7qJ-UEudq@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinAUsY-d3Ec6HpKbjzC+eUjGcq1LK5ODjxRC-yz@mail.gmail.com>

2011/3/5 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> First I liked this proposal, but then I thought about 'git diff
> --preped' (doesn't really sound right). I think the term should:
>
>  1) Have a nice noun version; staging area, preparation area
>  2) Have a nice verb version; to stage, to prep
>  3) Have a nice past-participle; staged, cached
>
> Casting? Forging? I don't know, staging always seems right.

I agree.

I don't why so many people seem to be trying so hard to come with
alternatives to "staged" and "staging area", when the latter are
actually quite good; so far all the suggestions have been much more
awkward and less intuitive.

It's true that "staging area" and "stage" as a verb are most intuitive
for native english speakers, but so far none of the alternatives
really seem any better for non-native speakers.  _All_ of these terms
are "learned" to some degree, and in that sense are arbitrary, but the
smoothness and intuitiveness of "staging area"/"stage" for english
speakers is a real plus I think.

As for translations, is it even an issue?  If term "XXX" is the
optimum term in some other language, then that should be the
translation for that langage, _regardless_ of what the english term
used is.

-miles

-- 
Cat is power.  Cat is peace.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-05  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-13 19:20 Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-13 19:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-13 22:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-14  2:05     ` Miles Bader
2011-02-14  5:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-14  6:27         ` Miles Bader
2011-02-14  6:59           ` Johannes Sixt
2011-02-14  7:07             ` Miles Bader
2011-02-14 10:42               ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-14 11:04                 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-14 17:12                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-14 22:07                     ` Miles Bader
2011-02-14 22:59                       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-14 23:47                         ` Miles Bader
2011-02-15  0:12                           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-14 13:14                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-14 13:43                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-14 13:57                     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-14 14:17                     ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-14 14:21                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-14 14:40                         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-14 15:24                       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-14 16:00                         ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-14 16:04                           ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-14 16:27                             ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-14  3:09     ` Pete Harlan
2011-02-16 23:11       ` Drew Northup
2011-02-26 20:36         ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-27 15:30           ` Drew Northup
2011-02-27 21:16       ` Aghiles
2011-02-28 20:53         ` Drew Northup
2011-02-14 22:32     ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-14 23:19       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-15  8:29         ` Pete Harlan
2011-02-15  9:00           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-15 18:15         ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-15 18:38           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-26 21:09         ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-26 21:51           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-27  0:01             ` Miles Bader
2011-02-27  0:16             ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-27  0:46               ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-27  8:15               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-27  8:43           ` Jeff King
2011-02-27  9:21             ` Miles Bader
2011-02-27 22:28               ` Jon Seymour
2011-02-27 23:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-28  9:38                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-27 15:34             ` Drew Northup
2011-02-28 23:03               ` Jeff King
2011-03-01  9:11                 ` David
2011-03-01  9:15                   ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-01  9:32                     ` Alexei Sholik
2011-03-01 17:02                       ` Drew Northup
2011-03-01 17:30                         ` Alexei Sholik
2011-03-01 17:41                           ` Drew Northup
2011-03-01  9:27                   ` Alexey Feldgendler
2011-03-01 16:46                     ` Drew Northup
2011-03-04 17:18                       ` Felipe Contreras
2011-03-05  4:53                         ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-03-05  5:00                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-06 12:44                           ` Drew Northup
     [not found]               ` <878466.93199.1298934204331.JavaMail.trustmail@mail1.terreactive.ch>
2011-03-01  8:43                 ` Victor Engmark
2011-02-27 18:46           ` Phil Hord
2011-03-01 10:29 ` Jonathan Nieder

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