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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-19 16:07:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-19 16:07:29 -0700 |
| commit | 947ab826679af3ad71f1bd69391deca3bc6edad9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a69484c0bf6020bb62b3b2fad6e2d90e4fdaff3 /git-update-index.html | |
| parent | fa156ead3ef3991c2ca287ac33572a01ac404180 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-947ab826679af3ad71f1bd69391deca3bc6edad9.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.8.2-61-g7b9a4
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diff --git a/git-update-index.html b/git-update-index.html index 4246a0866..2390e8432 100644 --- a/git-update-index.html +++ b/git-update-index.html @@ -996,8 +996,15 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually.</p></div> <dd>
<p>
Write the resulting index out in the named on-disk format version.
- The current default version is 2.
+ Supported versions are 2, 3 and 4. The current default version is 2
+ or 3, depending on whether extra features are used, such as
+ <code>git add -N</code>.
</p>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Version 4 performs a simple pathname compression that reduces index
+size by 30%-50% on large repositories, which results in faster load
+time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in in 1.8.0 in
+October 2012). Other Git implementations such as JGit and libgit2
+may not support it yet.</p></div>
</dd>
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-z
@@ -1293,7 +1300,7 @@ ctime for marking files processed) (see <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)< <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
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<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2013-02-05 21:07:26 PST
+Last updated 2013-03-19 16:06:22 PDT
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