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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | environment.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1932e9b9a2..4b3d965c3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -613,9 +613,9 @@ core.preloadindex:: + This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus -relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', Git will do the +relatively high IO latencies. When enabled, Git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing -overlapping IO's. +overlapping IO's. Defaults to true. core.createObject:: You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c index 5c4815dbe1..1c686c9095 100644 --- a/environment.c +++ b/environment.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ unsigned long pack_size_limit_cfg; char comment_line_char = '#'; /* Parallel index stat data preload? */ -int core_preload_index = 0; +int core_preload_index = 1; /* This is set by setup_git_dir_gently() and/or git_default_config() */ char *git_work_tree_cfg; |