Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] update-index doc: v4 is OK with JGit and libgit2
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
> index f4bb9c5daf..a367f8d65a 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 editions of this manual page called it "relatively young", but
Nit: s/editions/versions because typically "edition" means a version of
physically published text (such as books). Also I don't think we use the
word "edition" anywhere else in our codebase.