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Re: [PATCH] update-index doc: v4 is OK with JGit and libgit2

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Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 18, 2023, 19:00 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 11:16:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>+time. The first version to support it was Git 1.8.0 released in
>+October 2012,

"Git supports it since version 1.8.0[, which was] released in October 2012, and ..." would be probably easier to read.

>and support for it was added to libgit2 in 2016 and
+to
>+JGit in 2020,
>respectively.
>

this use of "respectively" is bogus; just leave it off. it would make sense if you wrote "was added to libgit2 and jgit in 2016 and 2020, respectively", but this would just complicate matters.

regards
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