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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt226
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoc.conf6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt86
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/core.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/diff.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/feature.txt37
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/fetch.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/format.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/gc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/index.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/pack.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/remote.txt8
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/doc-diff17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt56
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-export.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt273
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge-base.txt98
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge-index.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt52
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-replace.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-status.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcli.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitmodules.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage.xsl3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-options.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt117
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt377
50 files changed, 1182 insertions, 584 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 76f2ecfc1b..06d85ad958 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml11
ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook
ASCIIDOC_CONF = -f asciidoc.conf
ASCIIDOC_COMMON = $(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) $(ASCIIDOC_CONF) \
- -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION)
+ -amanversion=$(GIT_VERSION) \
+ -amanmanual='Git Manual' -amansource='Git'
TXT_TO_HTML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_HTML)
TXT_TO_XML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK)
MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl
@@ -197,11 +198,13 @@ ifdef USE_ASCIIDOCTOR
ASCIIDOC = asciidoctor
ASCIIDOC_CONF =
ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml5
-ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook45
+ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook5
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -acompat-mode -atabsize=8
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='&\#x2d;&\#x2d;'
DBLATEX_COMMON =
+XMLTO_EXTRA += --skip-validation
+XMLTO_EXTRA += -x manpage.xsl
endif
SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e1e2fa93e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+Git 2.24 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.23
+-------------------
+
+Backward compatibility note
+
+ * Although it is not officially deprecated, "filter-branch" is
+ showing its age and alternatives are available. From this release,
+ we started to discourage its uses and hint people about
+ filter-repo.
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of
+ the system. Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering.
+
+ * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
+ standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
+ first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
+ input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but
+ that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter
+ between revs and pathspec.
+
+ * A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of
+ configuration variables is introduced.
+
+ * "git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first
+ clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true
+ upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it.
+
+ * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns.
+ (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge
+ strategies and pass strategy specific options to them.
+
+ * A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced.
+
+ * Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been
+ added.
+
+ * The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more
+ than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading
+ missing objects on demand.
+
+ * The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone)
+ learned to take a combined filter specification.
+
+ * The documentation and tests for "git format-patch" have been
+ cleaned up.
+
+ * On Windows, the root level of UNC share is now allowed to be used
+ just like any other directory.
+
+ * The command line completion support (in contrib/) learned about the
+ "--skip" option of "git revert" and "git cherry-pick".
+
+ * "git rebase --keep-base <upstream>" tries to find the original base
+ of the topic being rebased and rebase on top of that same base,
+ which is useful when running the "git rebase -i" (and its limited
+ variant "git rebase -x").
+
+ The command also has learned to fast-forward in more cases where it
+ can instead of replaying to recreate identical commits.
+
+ * A configuration variable tells "git fetch" to write the commit
+ graph after finishing.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * The code to write commit-graph over given commit object names has
+ been made a bit more robust.
+
+ * The first line of verbose output from each test piece now carries
+ the test name and number to help scanning with eyeballs.
+
+ * Further clean-up of the initialization code.
+
+ * xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address
+ space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation
+ failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex
+ and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource
+ users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms.
+ It has been simplified away.
+
+ * Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been
+ optimized away.
+
+ * The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports
+ learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Preparation for SHA-256 upgrade continues in the test department.
+ (merge 0c37c41d13 bc/hash-independent-tests-part-5 later to maint).
+
+ * The memory ownership model of the "git fast-import" got
+ straightened out.
+
+ * Output from trace2 subsystem is formatted more prettily now.
+
+ * The internal code originally invented for ".gitignore" processing
+ got reshuffled and renamed to make it less tied to "excluding" and
+ stress more that it is about "matching", as it has been reused for
+ things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a
+ path is "included".
+
+
+
+Fixes since v2.23
+-----------------
+
+ * "git grep --recurse-submodules" that looks at the working tree
+ files looked at the contents in the index in submodules, instead of
+ files in the working tree.
+ (merge 6a289d45c0 mt/grep-submodules-working-tree later to maint).
+
+ * Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer
+ overflows and hardened.
+ (merge 5aa02f9868 jk/tree-walk-overflow later to maint).
+
+ * "git pack-refs" can lose refs that are created while running, which
+ is getting corrected.
+ (merge a613d4f817 sc/pack-refs-deletion-racefix later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout" and "git restore" to re-populate the index from a
+ tree-ish (typically HEAD) did not work correctly for a path that
+ was removed and then added again with the intent-to-add bit, when
+ the corresponding working tree file was empty. This has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Compilation fix.
+ (merge 70597e8386 rs/nedalloc-fixlets later to maint).
+
+ * "git gui" learned to call the clean-up procedure before exiting.
+ (merge 0d88f3d2c5 py/git-gui-do-quit later to maint).
+
+ * We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split
+ diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but
+ some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 64e5e1fba1 sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental later to maint).
+
+ * Fix a mismerge that happened in 2.22 timeframe.
+ (merge acb7da05ac en/checkout-mismerge-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive" recorded incorrect length in extended pax header in
+ some corner cases, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 71d41ff651 rs/pax-extended-header-length-fix later to maint).
+
+ * On-demand object fetching in lazy clone incorrectly tried to fetch
+ commits from submodule projects, while still working in the
+ superproject, which has been corrected.
+ (merge a63694f523 jt/diff-lazy-fetch-submodule-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Prepare get_short_oid() codepath to be thread-safe.
+ (merge 7cfcb16b0e rs/sort-oid-array-thread-safe later to maint).
+
+ * "for-each-ref" and friends that show refs did not protect themselves
+ against ancient tags that did not record tagger names when asked to
+ show "%(taggername)", which have been corrected.
+ (merge 8b3f33ef11 mp/for-each-ref-missing-name-or-email later to maint).
+
+ * The "git am" based backend of "git rebase" ignored the result of
+ updating ".gitattributes" done in one step when replaying
+ subsequent steps.
+ (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint).
+
+ * Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the
+ xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency.
+ (merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint).
+
+ * Build fix to adjust .gitignore to unignore a path that we started to track.
+ (merge aac6ff7b5b js/visual-studio later to maint).
+
+ * A few implementation fixes in the notes API.
+ (merge 60fe477a0b mh/notes-duplicate-entries later to maint).
+
+ * Fix an earlier regression to "git push --all" which should have
+ been forbidden when the target remote repository is set to be a
+ mirror.
+ (merge 8e4c8af058 tg/push-all-in-mirror-forbidden later to maint).
+
+ * Fix an earlier regression in the test suite, which mistakenly
+ stopped running HTTPD tests.
+ (merge 3960290675 sg/git-test-boolean later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --autostash <upstream> <branch>", when <branch> is
+ different from the current branch, incorrectly moved the tip of the
+ current branch, which has been corrected.
+ (merge bf1e28e0ad bw/rebase-autostash-keep-current-branch later to maint).
+
+ * Update support for Asciidoctor documentation toolchain.
+ (merge 83b0b8953e ma/asciidoctor-refmiscinfo later to maint).
+
+ * Start using DocBook 5 (instead of DocBook 4.5) as Asciidoctor 2.0
+ no longer works with the older one.
+ (merge f6461b82b9 bc/doc-use-docbook-5 later to maint).
+
+ * The markup used in user-manual has been updated to work better with
+ asciidoctor.
+ (merge c4d2f6143a ma/user-manual-markup-update later to maint).
+
+ * Make sure the grep machinery does not abort when seeing a payload
+ that is not UTF-8 even when JIT is not in use with PCRE1.
+ (merge ad7c543e3b cb/skip-utf8-check-with-pcre1 later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 415b770b88 ds/midx-expire-repack later to maint).
+ (merge 19800bdc3f nd/diff-parseopt later to maint).
+ (merge 58166c2e9d tg/t0021-racefix later to maint).
+ (merge 7027f508c7 dl/compat-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge e770fbfeff jc/test-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 1fd881d404 rs/trace2-dst-warning later to maint).
+ (merge 7e92756751 mh/http-urlmatch-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 9784f97321 mh/release-commit-memory-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 60d198d022 tb/banned-vsprintf-namefix later to maint).
+ (merge 80e3658647 rs/help-unknown-ref-does-not-return later to maint).
+ (merge 0a8bc7068f dt/remote-helper-doc-re-lock-option later to maint).
+ (merge 27fd1e4ea7 en/merge-options-ff-and-friends later to maint).
+ (merge 502c386ff9 sg/clean-nested-repo-with-ignored later to maint).
+ (merge 26e3d1cbea am/mailmap-andrey-mazo later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt
index 6553d69e33..6323feaf64 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Fixes since v2.7
setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.
* The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of
- fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot
+ fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_pattern_list() forgot
to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed
array.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
index 25079710fa..5fbe1b86ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ notes for details).
setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.
* The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of
- fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot
+ fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_pattern_list() forgot
to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed
array.
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 6d589e118c..1a60cc1329 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -372,9 +372,9 @@ such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
repositories.
-- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:
+- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pratyush Yadav:
- git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
+ https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui.git
- `gitk-git/` comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 2c16c536ba..8fc4b67081 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ template::[header-declarations]
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>{mantitle}</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>{manvolnum}</manvolnum>
-<refmiscinfo class="source">Git</refmiscinfo>
-<refmiscinfo class="version">{git_version}</refmiscinfo>
-<refmiscinfo class="manual">Git Manual</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class="source">{mansource}</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class="version">{manversion}</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class="manual">{manmanual}</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>{manname}</refname>
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
index 0089e0cfb8..d906a00803 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ module Git
named :chrome
def process(parent, target, attrs)
- if parent.document.basebackend? 'html'
- prefix = parent.document.attr('git-relative-html-prefix')
+ prefix = parent.document.attr('git-relative-html-prefix')
+ if parent.document.doctype == 'book'
+ "<ulink url=\"#{prefix}#{target}.html\">" \
+ "#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</ulink>"
+ elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'html'
%(<a href="#{prefix}#{target}.html">#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</a>)
elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'docbook'
"<citerefentry>\n" \
@@ -20,9 +23,26 @@ module Git
end
end
end
+
+ class DocumentPostProcessor < Asciidoctor::Extensions::Postprocessor
+ def process document, output
+ if document.basebackend? 'docbook'
+ mansource = document.attributes['mansource']
+ manversion = document.attributes['manversion']
+ manmanual = document.attributes['manmanual']
+ new_tags = "" \
+ "<refmiscinfo class=\"source\">#{mansource}</refmiscinfo>\n" \
+ "<refmiscinfo class=\"version\">#{manversion}</refmiscinfo>\n" \
+ "<refmiscinfo class=\"manual\">#{manmanual}</refmiscinfo>\n"
+ output = output.sub(/<\/refmeta>/, new_tags + "</refmeta>")
+ end
+ output
+ end
+ end
end
end
Asciidoctor::Extensions.register do
inline_macro Git::Documentation::LinkGitProcessor, :linkgit
+ postprocessor Git::Documentation::DocumentPostProcessor
end
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e3f5bc3396..f50f1b4128 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -178,47 +178,49 @@ to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions.
Example
~~~~~~~
- # Core variables
- [core]
- ; Don't trust file modes
- filemode = false
-
- # Our diff algorithm
- [diff]
- external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
- renames = true
-
- [branch "devel"]
- remote = origin
- merge = refs/heads/devel
-
- # Proxy settings
- [core]
- gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
- gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
-
- [include]
- path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
- path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
- path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory
-
- ; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
- [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
- path = /path/to/foo.inc
-
- ; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group
- [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
- path = /path/to/foo.inc
-
- ; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group
- [includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
- path = /path/to/foo.inc
-
- ; relative paths are always relative to the including
- ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
- ; affected by the condition
- [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
- path = foo.inc
+----
+# Core variables
+[core]
+ ; Don't trust file modes
+ filemode = false
+
+# Our diff algorithm
+[diff]
+ external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
+ renames = true
+
+[branch "devel"]
+ remote = origin
+ merge = refs/heads/devel
+
+# Proxy settings
+[core]
+ gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
+ gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
+
+[include]
+ path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
+ path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
+ path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory
+
+; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
+[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
+ path = /path/to/foo.inc
+
+; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group
+[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
+ path = /path/to/foo.inc
+
+; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group
+[includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
+ path = /path/to/foo.inc
+
+; relative paths are always relative to the including
+; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
+; affected by the condition
+[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
+ path = foo.inc
+----
; include only if we are in a worktree where foo-branch is
; currently checked out
@@ -345,6 +347,8 @@ include::config/difftool.txt[]
include::config/fastimport.txt[]
+include::config/feature.txt[]
+
include::config/fetch.txt[]
include::config/format.txt[]
diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index 75538d27e7..852d2ba37a 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ core.untrackedCache::
it will automatically be removed, if set to `false`. Before
setting it to `true`, you should check that mtime is working
properly on your system.
- See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default.
+ See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default, unless
+ `feature.manyFiles` is enabled which sets this setting to
+ `true` by default.
core.checkStat::
When missing or is set to `default`, many fields in the stat
@@ -577,7 +579,7 @@ the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
core.commitGraph::
If true, then git will read the commit-graph file (if it exists)
- to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to false. See
+ to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to true. See
linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for more information.
core.useReplaceRefs::
diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt
index 5afb5a2cbc..ff09f1cf73 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ diff.guitool::
include::../mergetools-diff.txt[]
diff.indentHeuristic::
- Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics
+ Set this option to `false` to disable the default heuristics
that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read.
diff.algorithm::
diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..875f8c8a66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+feature.*::
+ The config settings that start with `feature.` modify the defaults of
+ a group of other config settings. These groups are created by the Git
+ developer community as recommended defaults and are subject to change.
+ In particular, new config options may be added with different defaults.
+
+feature.experimental::
+ Enable config options that are new to Git, and are being considered for
+ future defaults. Config settings included here may be added or removed
+ with each release, including minor version updates. These settings may
+ have unintended interactions since they are so new. Please enable this
+ setting if you are interested in providing feedback on experimental
+ features. The new default values are:
++
+* `pack.useSparse=true` uses a new algorithm when constructing a pack-file
+which can improve `git push` performance in repos with many files.
++
+* `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by
+skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips.
++
+* `fetch.writeCommitGraph=true` writes a commit-graph after every `git fetch`
+command that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the `--split` option,
+most executions will create a very small commit-graph file on top of the
+existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will merge and the
+write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph file helps performance
+of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`, `git push -f`, and
+`git log --graph`.
+
+feature.manyFiles::
+ Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the
+ working directory. With many files, commands such as `git status` and
+ `git checkout` may be slow and these new defaults improve performance:
++
+* `index.version=4` enables path-prefix compression in the index.
++
+* `core.untrackedCache=true` enables the untracked cache. This setting assumes
+that mtime is working on your machine.
diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
index ba890b5884..e8cb20547c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm::
effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary
packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm