This conceptual overloading of language can be traced back to Linus' first commit. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 h

This conceptual overloading of language can be traced back to Linus' first commit. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23... The original idea was "current directory cache" and that still pops up in the syntax. I always run "git diff --cached" as a last sanity check before a commit.