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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-scm.com refresh
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 18:47:22 +0200
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On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:

> It seems that you are trying to advocate "staging area" as some sort =
of
> official term. =C2=A0I think "it is like a staging area" is a good ph=
rase to
> use when answering "what is the index?", but I think repeating it mil=
lion
> times without telling the casual readers what its official name is is
> counterproductive. =C2=A0Don't do that. =C2=A0It will confuse these s=
ame 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?".

--=20
=46elipe Contreras