Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

This is how "staging area" has been gaining popularity, I think ---
some (out-of-tree) documentation that is good for other reasons uses
it, and it really does seem to be a clearer term than "index" for
"place where the next commit is being prepared".

Also "magit" uses the label "Staging area:" for the list of files to be
committed -- and the key-binding to add a file to that list is "s"...

-Miles

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