+
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 in 1.8.0 in
+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.
linkgit:git-config[1]) than using the `--fsmonitor` option to
`git update-index` in each repository, especially if you want to do so
across all repositories you use, because you can set the configuration
- variable to `true` (or `false`) in your `$HOME/.gitconfig` just once
- and have it affect all repositories you touch.
+ variable in your `$HOME/.gitconfig` just once and have it affect all
+ repositories you touch.
When the `core.fsmonitor` configuration variable is changed, the
file system monitor is added to or removed from the index the next time