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From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: friendlier names
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:30:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mydc6a2r.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> (raw)


I'm absolutely certain I'm not the first person to have raised this
issue, so feel free to point me at the threads where I can get the
rationale... but: to me it looks like git's choice of terminology hurts
its adoption and learnability.  

For example, why couldn't the "index" be called the "stage" instead?
That, along with knowing that "git add" was a synonym for "git stage"
would have flattened the learning curve considerably for me.

Thanks,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 15:30 David Abrahams [this message]
2009-01-27 15:33 ` friendlier names Felipe Contreras
2009-01-27 15:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-27 16:40   ` David Abrahams
2009-01-27 18:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-27 18:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-27 19:17     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-27 19:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-28  2:12         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-28  4:51           ` Junio C Hamano

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