From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:15:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20110213193738.GA26868@elie> <7v8vxjwnhj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110214231920.GA24814@elie> <20110227084317.GB3356@sigill.intra.peff.net> <1298820840.19827.69.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <20110228230311.GA7533@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Jeff King , Drew Northup , Felipe Contreras , Jonathan Nieder , Piotr Krukowiecki , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: David X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 01 10:16:35 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 1PuLh4-0000GG-Kc for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:16:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754060Ab1CAJQ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:16:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:42404 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753741Ab1CAJQ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:16:26 -0500 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p219Fuxg027049 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:15:56 +0100 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuLgU-00082v-TU; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:15:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: (David's message of "Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:11:11 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:15:56 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: p219Fuxg027049 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1299575761.27814@++qUqxTSHgRUFJ4J7Ci3zg Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David writes: > A suggestion: could your conceptual bucket be named as "the > precommit". I actually like it. Maybe "precommit area", or "precommit something", because "precommit" could be seen either as an action (like the pre-commit hook) or as a place to put stuff. As a non-native speaker, I didn't know what "staging area" really meant in english, but the "area" part of the expression immediately made sense to me. Had it been called the "foobar-ing area", I would have found it more intuitive than cache or index ;-). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/