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[PATCH] index-format.txt: remove outdated list of supported extensions

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 18, 2022, 08:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20220718085640.7395-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

The first section of 'Documentation/technical/index-format.txt' mentions that "Git currently supports cache tree and resolve undo extensions", but then goes on, and in the "Extensions" section describes not only these two, but six other extensions [1].

Remove this sentence, as it's misleading about the status of all those other extensions.

Alternatively we could keep that sentence and update the list of extensions, but that might well lead to a recurring issue, because apparently this list is never updated when a new index extension is added.

[1] Split index, untracked cache, FS monitor cache, end of index
    entry, index entry offset table and sparse directory entries.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index 65da0daaa5..f691c20ab0 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ Git index format
      Extensions are identified by signature. Optional extensions can
      be ignored if Git does not understand them.
 
-     Git currently supports cache tree and resolve undo extensions.
-
      4-byte extension signature. If the first byte is 'A'..'Z' the
      extension is optional and can be ignored.
 
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Next: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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  1. index-format.txt: remove outdated list of supported extensionsSZEDER Gábor, Jul 18, 2022
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 18, 2022
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 18, 2022

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