> Here is my attempt to improve the situation by giving a definition > of "staging area" in the glossary. Luckily, "cache" already has its > own entry, describing it as an old synonym to the 'index', so I > didn't have to do anything there. Also the description of 'index' > has a bit too much implementation detail, which I toned down. I love the idea of improving the glossary, but I'm concerned that glossary isn't very discoverable -- I didn't even know Git had a glossary until relatively recently. I think we can be much more brief about resolving this confusion though -- from the user feedback, all users seem to want to know is whether "index" and "staging area" mean the same thing, and that we can clear that up in just a few words -- 'index (also known as "staging area")'.
