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@xxxxxx> Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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
