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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>
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@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ git add [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [-
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Add contents of new or changed files to the index. The "index" (also
known as "staging area") is where Git stores the contents of the next
commit.
known as the "staging area") is what you use to prepare the contents of
the next commit.

When you run `git commit` without any other arguments, it will only
commit staged changes. For example, if you've edited `file.c` and want