From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Abrahams Subject: friendlier names Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:30:04 -0500 Message-ID: <87mydc6a2r.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 27 16:31:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRpuh-000870-Sn for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:31:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752794AbZA0PaU (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:30:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752474AbZA0PaT (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:30:19 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57274 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752028AbZA0PaR (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:30:17 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LRptH-000130-7q for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:30:16 +0000 Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:30:15 +0000 Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:30:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IgMvsAMt71sQe5+uGqgyIiAqcRI= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'm absolutely certain I'm not the first person to have raised this issue, so feel free to point me at the threads where I can get the rationale... but: to me it looks like git's choice of terminology hurts its adoption and learnability. For example, why couldn't the "index" be called the "stage" instead? That, along with knowing that "git add" was a synonym for "git stage" would have flattened the learning curve considerably for me. Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com