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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt4
-rw-r--r--environment.c2
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;