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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] update-index doc: v4 is OK with JGit and libgit2
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:32:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230912193235.776292-2-gitster@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230912193235.776292-1-gitster@pobox.com>

Being 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.

Helped-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index f4bb9c5daf..71d6ef9457 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 versions 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
-- 
2.42.0-158-g94e83dcf5b


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-12 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-18 23:37 [PATCH v2 0/3] "update-index --show-index-version" Junio C Hamano
2023-08-18 23:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] update-index doc: v4 is OK with JGit and libgit2 Junio C Hamano
2023-09-12  4:57   ` Linus Arver
2023-09-12 17:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-18 23:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] update-index: add --show-index-version Junio C Hamano
2023-09-12  5:54   ` Linus Arver
2023-09-12 19:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-18 23:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] test-tool: retire "index-version" Junio C Hamano
2023-09-12  6:10   ` Linus Arver
2023-09-12 19:32 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] "update-index --show-index-version" Junio C Hamano
2023-09-12 19:32   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-09-12 19:32   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] update-index: add --show-index-version Junio C Hamano
2023-11-14  2:18     ` Teng Long
2023-11-14  2:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-12 19:32   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] test-tool: retire "index-version" Junio C Hamano
2023-09-14  6:19   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] "update-index --show-index-version" Linus Arver
2023-09-14 18:15     ` Junio C Hamano

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