Junio C HamanoBeing invented in late 2012 no longer makes the index v4 format "relatively young".
The support for the index version 4 was added to libgit2 with their 5625d86b (index: support index v4, 2016-05-17) and to JGit with their e9cb0a8e (DirCache: support index V4, 2020-08-10).
Let's update the paragraph that discouraged its use for folks overly cautious about cross-tool compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index f4bb9c5daf..3d90d6f9ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -166,9 +166,12 @@ 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. The first version to support it was Git 1.8.0 released in +October 2012, and support for it was added to libgit2 in 2016 and +JGit in 2020, respectively. Older editions of this manual page called +it "relatively young", but it should be considered mature technology +these days. + -z:: Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are
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