Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com>
---
 .. and the user should know (briefly) the differences between index
 versions too.

 Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt 
b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 77a912d..e5aaba5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -145,7 +145,15 @@ 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 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

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