Re: [1.8.0] use 'stage' term consistently

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The word "index" is quite well understood: that which points at the
information given a headword that refers to it, which is exactly what the
"index" we have is. On the other hand, "to stage/staging area" is not as
widely used outside the narrow shipping/logistics circles.

That's what git has, *internally*, but that's not how high-level users
interact with it.

I agree with that. Explaining users that the <whatever you call it> is
the place where you stage content in preparation for the next commit is
much more productive than explaining that it is an array of
(name, sha1sum) pairs.

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Matthieu Moy
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