From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Drew Northup Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:53:46 -0500 Message-ID: <1298926426.29337.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> References: <20110213193738.GA26868@elie> <7v8vxjwnhj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4D589CE0.7020203@pcharlan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pete Harlan , Junio C Hamano , Jonathan Nieder , Piotr Krukowiecki , git@vger.kernel.org To: Aghiles X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 28 21:54:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuA6y-0003kO-Ft for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:54:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755045Ab1B1Uy1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:54:27 -0500 Received: from basalt.its.maine.edu ([130.111.32.66]:47119 "EHLO basalt.its.maine.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805Ab1B1Uy0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:54:26 -0500 Received: from [IPv6:2610:48:100:827:211:43ff:fe9f:cb7e] (drew-northup.unet.maine.edu [IPv6:2610:48:100:827:211:43ff:fe9f:cb7e]) by basalt.its.maine.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1SKrpKI031967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:53:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.3) X-DCC-UniversityOfMaineSystem-Metrics: basalt.its.maine.edu 1003; Body=6 Fuz1=6 Fuz2=6 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-UmaineSystem-MailScanner-ID: p1SKrpKI031967 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: drew.northup@maine.edu X-UmaineSystem-MailScanner-Watermark: 1299531237.60325@HcoojA6OP7sp/4o97Q6W1w Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 16:16 -0500, Aghiles wrote: > > FWIW, when teaching Git I have found that users immediately understand > > "staging area", while "index" and "cache" confuse them. > > FWIW, same here. I would really like to hear the actual presentation. What one says in person in front of a classroom and what one puts in a manpage are frequently not the same thing--and there's a good reason for that. If nothing else, we could come up with a better presentation at the end! -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59