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@@ -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