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doc: rephrase the purpose of the staging area
authorJulia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:55:02 +0000 (11:55 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:21:08 +0000 (10:21 -0700)
commite5c27bd3d82c558f4f8ced1f61c28a466232ee21
treeedb1712ca18190815134913c3c9a5546df68e009
parent929e112481b4632a6664d7b583bd99b8c590eb1a
doc: rephrase the purpose of the staging area

Git does not really "store the contents of the next commit"
anywhere; rather, you the user use the index to prepare it.

Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
[jc; made the change relative to what is already in 'next']
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-add.adoc