Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

["David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:02:42 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> .. But that is not the only thing the index does.  When "git merge"
> finds conflicting changes, it adds the contents for common, our and
> their variants to the index for the path.  This is quite different
> from how you use the index "as staging area"; the index is being
> used as the "merging area".  When "git clean" wants to see which
> paths it finds on the filesystem are not of interest, it consults
> the index, which acts as the list of paths that are of interest.

If the phrase "staging area" is consistently used *instead* of index,
there's no problem. E.g., "git clean consults the staging area"
conveys exactly the same information as "git clean consults the index"
when index == staging area.

The term "index" has too many *other* meanings.

--- David A. Wheeler