From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org,
Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki.news@gmail•com>,
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail•com>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>,
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>,
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>,
Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:37:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeh9c4a2t.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130829180129.GA4880@nysa> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:01:29 -0500")
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com> writes:
> It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
> appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
> it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term.
"add" is the verb, not "index" (which is a noun that refers
to the thing that keeps track of what will be written as a tree to
be committed next).
And it will stay that way.
IIRC, when this was discussed, many non-native speakers had trouble
with the verb "to stage", not just from i18n/l10n point of view.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-29 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-29 18:01 Officially start moving to the term 'staging area' Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:09 ` [PATCH 0/2] stage: proper 'stage' command Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add " Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-29 18:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] stage: add edit command Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-29 18:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add --stage and --work options Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/9] diff: document --staged Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] grep: add --staged option Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] rm: " Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] stash: add --stage option to save Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] stash: add --stage to pop and apply Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] submodule: add --staged options Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] apply: add --stage option Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] apply: add --work, --no-work options Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] completion: update --staged options Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 0/3] reset: refactor into --stage and --work Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] reset: add --stage and --work options Felipe Contreras
[not found] ` <CALkWK0=P0xZAk95Jmw9mRUCwPQP7NmVHsuPaWNg+D2v3wP9=-w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-08 22:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-09 0:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 0:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] reset: allow --keep with --stage Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] completion: update 'git reset' new stage options Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-29 19:57 ` Officially start moving to the term 'staging area' Felipe Contreras
2013-08-30 19:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-30 20:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-30 20:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-30 20:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 21:55 ` Drew Northup
2013-08-29 22:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-04 4:45 ` Drew Northup
2013-09-08 2:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-30 5:16 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-09-04 4:23 ` Drew Northup
2013-09-04 7:13 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-09-04 13:36 ` Drew Northup
2013-09-08 1:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 1:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 1:33 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 7:49 ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-08 9:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 18:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-29 18:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-29 19:15 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-29 19:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-29 20:03 ` René Scharfe
2013-08-29 20:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-31 7:46 ` René Scharfe
2013-08-31 7:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-01 3:46 ` David Aguilar
2013-08-29 21:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-04 6:08 ` William Swanson
2013-09-06 15:45 ` Ping Yin
2013-09-06 17:14 ` Hilco Wijbenga
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