Re: [1.8.0] use 'stage' term consistently

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 6, 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Actually Git porcelain does use 'the index' as a cache (computing),
> > > i.e. as a place to store redundant information (stat data, sha-1
> > > for trees with DIRC dircache extension) for faster access.
> >
> > This is an implementation optimization, that is not supposed to be
> > visible for the user. Commands refering to the "cache" are not about
> > stat data cache (e.g. "git diff --cached" is really about the content,
> > not the stat cache).
> 
> Exactly; that's an implementation detail that doesn't affect how the
> user actually interacts with the staging area.

Well, it does (or hopefully just did) affect the user: _if it fails_,
in the form of empty diff on no changes because of stat-dirtyness
or racy-git :-P

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland