[PATCH v6 05/12] fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.

[Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>]

This includes the core.fsmonitor setting, the query-fsmonitor hook,
and the fsmonitor index extension.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt                 |  6 ++++++
 Documentation/githooks.txt               | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index dc4e3f58a2..c196007a27 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -413,6 +413,12 @@ core.protectNTFS::
 	8.3 "short" names.
 	Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere.
 
+core.fsmonitor::
+	If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which
+	will identify all files that may have changed since the
+	requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by
+	avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed.
+
 core.trustctime::
 	If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
 	working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 1bb4f92d4d..da82d64b0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -456,6 +456,29 @@ non-zero status causes 'git send-email' to abort before sending any
 e-mails.
 
 
+[[fsmonitor-watchman]]
+fsmonitor-watchman
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This hook is invoked when the configuration option core.fsmonitor is
+set to .git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.  It takes two arguments, a version
+(currently 1) and the time in elapsed nanoseconds since midnight,
+January 1, 1970.
+
+The hook should output to stdout the list of all files in the working
+directory that may have changed since the requested time.  The logic
+should be inclusive so that it does not miss any potential changes.
+The paths should be relative to the root of the working directory
+and be separated by a single NUL.
+
+Git will limit what files it checks for changes as well as which
+directories are checked for untracked files based on the path names
+given.
+
+The exit status determines whether git will use the data from the
+hook to limit its search.  On error, it will fall back to verifying
+all files and folders.
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index ade0b0c445..db3572626b 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -295,3 +295,22 @@ The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type:
     in the previous ewah bitmap.
 
   - One NUL.
+
+== File System Monitor cache
+
+  The file system monitor cache tracks files for which the core.fsmonitor
+  hook has told us about changes.  The signature for this extension is
+  { 'F', 'S', 'M', 'N' }.
+
+  The extension starts with
+
+  - 32-bit version number: the current supported version is 1.
+
+  - 64-bit time: the extension data reflects all changes through the given
+	time which is stored as the nanoseconds elapsed since midnight,
+	January 1, 1970.
+
+  - 32-bit bitmap size: the size of the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bitmap.
+
+  - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry
+    is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID.
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