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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: friendlier names
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:33:23 +0200
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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