I've been using git professionally for a few years, and other distributed versio...

nicky0 · on Oct 2, 2016

It's central to git. 'git add' puts changes in the staging area. Then 'git commit' commits the staged changes.

The staging area is also known as the 'index' and the 'cache'.

(Git has a consistency-of-naming problem.)

projektir · on Oct 2, 2016

> (Git has a consistency-of-naming problem.)

I wonder how many git usability issues could be solved just by addressing this and this alone.

Mithaldu · on Oct 2, 2016

Please refer to the linked discussion. Various people ask about it and various people try to explain it (including me).