Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:46 AM, David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com>
> wrote:
>> On December 13, 2017 12:40:12 AM EST, Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>I know we've used various terms for this concept across a lot of the
>>>documentation. However, I was under the impression that we most
>>>explicitly used "index" rather than "staging area".
>>
>> I think "staging area" is the better term. It focuses on its purpose, and it
>> is also less confusing ("index" and "cache" have other meanings in many of
>> the repos managed by git).
>
> After your patch the majority of the docs will still talk about
> "index", is this part of some larger series, perhaps it would be good
> to see it all at once...
... or none of it. I do not quite see a point of spending list
bandwidth on a change like this one.
