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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-scm.com refresh
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 18:47:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s17CYY-eoQKeEGDRQ5B+d_vni0GDpKcSjKRmoxjTFYwsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd36j8lc3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> It seems that you are trying to advocate "staging area" as some sort of
> official term.  I think "it is like a staging area" is a good phrase to
> use when answering "what is the index?", but I think repeating it million
> times without telling the casual readers what its official name is is
> counterproductive.  Don't do that.  It will confuse these same people when
> they start reading manuals.

I think keeping the name 'index' is what is counter-productive. I
think most users don't even need to hear the term 'index' in order to
interact with the staging area in common operations, so they won't ask
"what is the index?".

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-05 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 23:29 git-scm.com refresh Scott Chacon
2012-05-05  0:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-05 22:24   ` Scott Chacon
2012-05-05 23:20   ` Josh Juran
2012-05-05  1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-05 16:47   ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2012-05-05 22:38   ` Scott Chacon
2012-05-06  1:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-06  2:31       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-06  3:51       ` Scott Chacon
2012-05-06  8:33       ` Philip Oakley
2012-05-07 17:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08 16:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08 17:46             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-05-08 18:00               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-05  9:14 ` Andrew Sayers
2012-05-05 14:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-05 14:36 ` Philip Oakley
2012-05-06  0:08 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-05-06  5:10 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-05-06 11:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-05-06 13:36   ` Scott Chacon
2012-05-07  4:18 ` Christian Couder
2012-05-07 17:08   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-05-07 15:08 ` A Large Angry SCM
2012-05-07 21:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-05-09 22:13   ` Heiko Voigt
2012-05-08 12:29 ` Antonio Ospite

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