[PATCH] doc: update advice about other implementations' v4 index support
From: Scott Worley <scottworley@scottworley.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Worley <scottworley@scottworley.com>
---
Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 2853f168d9..e8eca5dadf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -166,9 +166,10 @@ 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. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in git 1.8.0 in
+October 2012, supported in libgit2 0.24.4 from December 2016, go-git
+4.0.0 from January 2018, and jgit 5.9.0 from September 2020). Other
+Git implementations such as Dulwich may not support it yet.
-z::
Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are
--
2.29.3