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diff --git a/Documentation/config/index.txt b/Documentation/config/index.txt index 75f3a2d105..23c7985eb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/index.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/index.txt @@ -30,3 +30,14 @@ index.version:: Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. If `feature.manyFiles` is enabled, then the default is 4. + +index.skipHash:: + When enabled, do not compute the trailing hash for the index file. + This accelerates Git commands that manipulate the index, such as + `git add`, `git commit`, or `git status`. Instead of storing the + checksum, write a trailing set of bytes with value zero, indicating + that the computation was skipped. ++ +If you enable `index.skipHash`, then Git clients older than 2.13.0 will +refuse to parse the index and Git clients older than 2.40.0 will report an +error during `git fsck`. |