Store the submodule name in struct cached_refs

[git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 10a1cba643cc9e6cc9a441708b1d43f468fb8383..bbb9d4dc9ab37a242d8accb86fa8a0d35d677ab8 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
        $ make all doc ;# as yourself
        # make install install-doc install-html;# as root
 
+If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later
+faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with
+
+       $ make profile-all
+       # make prefix=... install
+
+This will run the complete test suite as training workload and then
+rebuild git with the generated profile feedback. This results in a git
+which is a few percent faster on CPU intensive workloads.  This
+may be a good tradeoff for distribution packagers.
+
+Note that the profile feedback build stage currently generates
+a lot of additional compiler warnings.
 
 Issues of note:
 
@@ -122,8 +135,9 @@ Issues of note:
    Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires
    dblatex.  Version 0.2.7 with asciidoc >= 8.2.7 is known to work.
 
-   The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
-   ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+   The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but by default
+   uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have
+   AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease".
 
    Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
    "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself.  For