From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piotr Krukowiecki Subject: Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area' Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:13:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20130829180129.GA4880@nysa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Felipe Contreras , Git Mailing List , Jay Soffian , Miles Bader , Jonathan Nieder , Philip Oakley , Matthieu Moy , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Scott Chacon To: Drew Northup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 04 09:14:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VH7Ht-0006vF-Uw for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:14:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762034Ab3IDHN5 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 03:13:57 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:42141 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756366Ab3IDHN4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 03:13:56 -0400 Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id c13so3464408eek.5 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:13:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DfbPFwEytoWAFv9+rFrsAMxtoslB3UTEEjR+hlrv01E=; b=vRxXfFYZ4y16ruBsJRYtwB5TPC6PIK+AzLs5lS/Pa9gvmpN+OAGJ2Ehpq1bNWngukM Uu7yBNMxpC/UmCQA4g4B4w+p/nCyXmzgLNLs15SD120IIcD2juF1FpG4cdX8Zzm2yXuX AbrIdU4XyOeHaff7il1jl+RiIp9bECHdCwvIP6dsv2ILMCWMVvFMVpNV75rToEqbEJCA h2GDEpQ0HttHhBg4iB+OSjCz7RJmXF6B1Kh71o6O0LbASe8Hd9wUCWod9WzGLtK3n8p+ 4OytDXd4Q88TlvyjD4TZhjEyyO5ydOFGoZHYFZ9IbWnYKZe2h+n7mD8n9D9IJrUR+l6/ cOQg== X-Received: by 10.15.74.197 with SMTP id j45mr2428822eey.40.1378278835384; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.198.71 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 00:13:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday: http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/2= 40160261?pgno=3D2 The author does not use the use the word "index" at all. Instead he writes in following way: -----------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------- Staging Changes One of Git's best features is that it offers a staging process. You can stage the modified files that you want to commit. Other version control systems await your one command before your files are changed in the repository =97 generally the remote repository for the entire team. When you commit files in Git, files are held in a staging area. You will later commit all the files from the staging area to the larger repository. So, let's say you wanted to make a change involving files A and B. You changed file A. You then remembered something unrelated to do with file Z and you modified that. Then you went back to your initial change, modifying file B. Git allows you to add files A and B to staging, while leaving file Z "unstaged." Then you can push only the staged files to your repository. But you don't! You realize you need to make a change to file C as well. You "add" it. Now files A,B, and C are staged, and Z is still unstaged. You commit the staged changes only. [...] -----------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------- Sorry for not responding to your comments Drew, no time at the moment. --=20 Piotr Krukowiecki