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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-09-12 12:32:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-09-12 16:21:53 -0700 |
| commit | 764b2330db42d07ed8c7d4f6c66a1d1203fb95de (patch) | |
| tree | 93df6467034725bd1e64ce825a15200ff49d8dbe /Documentation/git-update-index.txt | |
| parent | fb7d80edcae482f4fa5d4be0227dc3054734e5f3 (diff) | |
| download | git-764b2330db42d07ed8c7d4f6c66a1d1203fb95de.tar.gz | |
update-index doc: v4 is OK with JGit and libgit2
Being invented in late 2012 no longer makes the index v4 format
"relatively young".
The support for the index version 4 was added to libgit2 with their
5625d86b (index: support index v4, 2016-05-17) and to JGit with
their e9cb0a8e (DirCache: support index V4, 2020-08-10).
Let's update the paragraph that discouraged its use for folks overly
cautious about cross-tool compatibility.
Helped-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index f4bb9c5daf..71d6ef9457 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -166,9 +166,11 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. + 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 1.8.0 in -October 2012). Other Git implementations such as JGit and libgit2 -may not support it yet. +time. Git supports it since version 1.8.0, released in October 2012, +and support for it was added to libgit2 in 2016 and to JGit in 2020. +Older versions of this manual page called it "relatively young", but +it should be considered mature technology these days. + -z:: Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are |