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From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/2] update-index: list supported idx versions and their features
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:29:31 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361586571-12917-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361534964-4232-2-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>


Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 Oops, bogus indentation in the first 3/2

 Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 77a912d..dbb75f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -145,7 +145,14 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually.
 
 --index-version <n>::
 	Write the resulting index out in the named on-disk format version.
-	The current default version is 2.
+	Supported versions are 2, 3 and 4. The current default version is 2
+	or 3, depending on whether extra features are used, such as
+	`git add -N`.
++
+Version 4 performs a simple pathname compression that could reduce
+index size by 30%-50% on large repositories, which results in faster
+load time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in in 1.8.0
+in October 2012). Other Git implementations may not support it yet.
 
 -z::
 	Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are
-- 
1.8.1.2.536.gf441e6d

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-22 12:09 [PATCH 1/2] index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-02-22 12:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] read-cache.c: use INDEX_FORMAT_{LB,UB} in verify_hdr() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-02-22 20:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-23  1:54   ` [PATCH 3/2] update-index: list supported idx versions and their features Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-02-23 20:53     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-23 21:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-23 21:53         ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-23  2:29   ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [this message]
2013-02-23 20:55     ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-22 20:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places Junio C Hamano

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