From: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:33 AM
[snip...]
The snapshot concept is totally orthogonal from the staging area
concept. Git works in snapshots, which are frozen images of how the
content tree was at a certain point in time; IOW; a commit.
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org wrote:
From: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:33 AM
[snip...]
The snapshot concept is totally orthogonal from the staging area
concept. Git works in snapshots, which are frozen
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
piotr.krukowie...@gmail.com wrote:
Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
The author does not use the use the word index at all. Instead
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
piotr.krukowie...@gmail.com wrote:
Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
piotr.krukowie...@gmail.com wrote:
Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com napisał:
I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the
documentation clearer and more
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson swanson...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with
On 6 September 2013 08:45, Ping Yin pkufra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 PM, William Swanson swanson...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term.
I realize Git
Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
The author does not use the use the word index at all. Instead he
writes in following way:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
piotr.krukowie...@gmail.com wrote:
Just wanted to point to a Dr. Dobb's article from Monday:
http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/getting-started-with-git-the-fundamental/240160261?pgno=2
The author does not use the use the word index at all. Instead
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki
piotr.krukowie...@gmail.com wrote:
Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com napisał:
I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the
documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user
needs to build a model in their mind of
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has
Am 29.08.2013 22:36, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe l@web.de wrote:
If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,
unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts with --work, too. So you
can have a descriptive, extra-long
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:46 AM, René Scharfe l@web.de wrote:
Am 29.08.2013 22:36, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe l@web.de wrote:
If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,
unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:46 AM, René Scharfe l@web.de wrote:
Am 29.08.2013 22:36, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe l@web.de wrote:
If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,
unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
Again, *everyone* has agreed that index needs to be renamed, and
staging area is the best option.
Do I really need to go through all the discussions and list each and
every person that participated in them,
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote:
IIRC, when this was discussed, many non-native speakers had trouble
with the verb to stage, not just from i18n/l10n point of view.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
Here are the threads once again:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197111
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
Here are the threads once again:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term.
add is the verb, not index (which is a noun
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term.
Thanks for working on this. No time for a
Matthieu Moy wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
it has been agreed that 'staging area' is the best term.
Thanks for working
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
Matthieu Moy wrote:
These explanations make sense. I think it would be better to put part of
it in commit messages, so that future contributors can git blame the
doc/implem of these --stage and find them (i.e. avoid the
misunderstanding
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
add an explanation in Documentation/gitstagingarea.txt
or something.
There's Documentation/gitcli.txt, that will need updating anyway (at the
bottom, it talks about --cached and --index).
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
--
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
it has been agreed that
Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
Matthieu Moy wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
Moreover, the --stage and --work
--work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
working tree. It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe l@web.de wrote:
Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
Matthieu Moy wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
Moreover, the --stage and --work
--work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
Matthieu Moy wrote:
--work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
working tree. It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git
already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar).
Yes,
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description for what the high-level user does with it, and
it has been agreed that
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote:
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes:
It has been discussed many times in the past that 'index' is not an
appropriate description
Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com napisał:
I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the
documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user
needs to build a model in their mind of what they are doing which maps
enough (completely is not required) to what is actually
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