Re: friendlier names

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

It is a bit of pity that "git add" was overloaded to also add new
contents and not only add new file (and its contents!), instead of
having new command "git stage" to be porcelain version of 
"git update-index" porcelain.  And perhaps "git resolved" to only
mark resolved entries (so e.g. "git resolved ." would not add new
files, nor add new contents of files which were not in conflict).

I do not think so.

People who are taught with various means (including "git stage" alias)
understand that you prepare the contents you want to record in the commit
you are about to make by updating the contents registered in the index aka
staging area, then you do not need "git resolved".

You resolve, you have the desired content in your work tree, and you
register the updated contents from your work tree to the index aka staging
area, in exactly the same way as you do when you want to include updated
contents for any commit.