From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: friendlier names
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:33:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530901270733q222a6181k25b1da91b35e72d4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mydc6a2r.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
+1
I think several people have mentioned it, and there have been
different possible actions, but nothing concrete AFAIK.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 15:30 friendlier names David Abrahams
2009-01-27 15:33 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
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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