On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:08:44AM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
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> On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:31 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
>>>> Also, I like the verb "stage" as a way to explain the part of the index
>>>> file in creating commits, but I've been consistently using the word
>>>> "index" throughout the user manual, and I think that's consistent with
>>>> the rest of the documentation--so don't avoid it here.
>>>
>>> "staging/unstaging" is how git gui calls adding/removing files to and
>>> from the index.
>>
>> I understand what you meant, but a reader of the user manual at this
>> point might not, since it's been consistently saying things like "to add
>> the contents of a new file to the index, use git add".  So we should use
>> the same language here.  Unless we want to update the whole thing to use
>> "stage" and "unstage".  I'd rather not.
>
> Agree. But we could briefly introduce git gui's dialect, something like
>
> "git gui lets you select files (use menu 'Commit > Stage to Commit') or
> individually diff hunks (use 'Stage Hunk For Commit' in context menu of
> diff view) for inclusion in the index."

Sounds good to me.  Somebody do that!

--b.
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