From: scottworley@scottworley.com Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:22:06 GMT Subject: [PATCH] doc: update advice about other implementations' v4 index support Message-ID: <20210409202206.29990-1-scottworley@scottworley.com> From: Scott Worley Signed-off-by: Scott Worley --- 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