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With the `--append` option, include all commits that are present in the
existing commit-graph file.
+
+With the `--changed-paths` option, compute and write information about the
+paths changed between a commit and it's first parent. This operation can
+take a while on large repositories. It provides significant performance gains
+for getting history of a directory or a file with `git log -- <path>`.
++
With the `--split[=<strategy>]` option, write the commit-graph as a
chain of multiple commit-graph files stored in
`<dir>/info/commit-graphs`. Commit-graph layers are merged based on the