Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index

[Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:27 +0100, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:11:11 +0100, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > A suggestion: could your conceptual bucket be named as "the precommit".
> >
> > Motives for this suggestion are:
> > 1)  I imagine this word will be readily translatable;
> 
> Less so than “staging area”, at least into Russian.
> 
> Just my two cents.

I was starting to think about "commit preparation area" this morning,
but it sounds horribly long. Would "Prep area" work provided that the
longer version has already been introduced into the discussion? This
provides a similar language metaphor to "staging area" hopefully without
the translation problem.

Also, I still think that it is important to note somewhere that the way
that git handles commits is not the way that most users are likely to
imagine (the Index doesn't contain the blob objects itself; a finalized
commit is not just a bundled collection of everything as somebody might
expect; etc) so this "Prep area" is a logical space not completely
analogous to stuff found in the ".git" directory. Pretending that
complexity does not exist will not help; letting the users know that
they don't need to grok all of the details to get started is, on the
other hand, quite important.

(Reconstructing the CC list... let me know if I left you out, spammed
you, etc...)

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-Drew Northup
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