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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc b/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc index 3e089211fb..34c905eb9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc @@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ better off using the revision walk API instead. the revision walk so that the walk emits commits marked with the `UNINTERESTING` flag. +`edge_aggressive`:: + For performance reasons, usually only the boundary commits are + explored to find UNINTERESTING objects. However, in the case of + shallow clones it can be helpful to mark all trees and blobs + reachable from UNINTERESTING tip commits as UNINTERESTING. This + matches the behavior of `--objects-edge-aggressive` in the + revision API. + `pl`:: This pattern list pointer allows focusing the path-walk search to a set of patterns, only emitting paths that match the given @@ -69,4 +77,5 @@ Examples See example usages in: `t/helper/test-path-walk.c`, + `builtin/pack-objects.c`, `builtin/backfill.c` |