Re: [PATCH v2 try2 00/14] Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

On 25 April 2014 11:12, Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

The term 'staging area' is more intuitive for newcomers which are more
familiar with English than with Git, and it seems to be a
straightforward mental notion for people with different mother tongues.

In fact it is so intuitive that it's used already in a lot online
documentation, and the people that do teach Git professionally use this
term, because it's easier for many kinds of audiences to grasp.

While the implementation looks okay to me, I will not pretend to be a
good judge of that so I will leave that to others. But I definitely
welcome the API change this produces.