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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/feature.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/index.txt | 1 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index e3f5bc3396..77f3b1486b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -345,6 +345,8 @@ include::config/difftool.txt[] include::config/fastimport.txt[] +include::config/feature.txt[] + include::config/fetch.txt[] include::config/format.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index e66d79fd76..852d2ba37a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ core.untrackedCache:: it will automatically be removed, if set to `false`. Before setting it to `true`, you should check that mtime is working properly on your system. - See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default. + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default, unless + `feature.manyFiles` is enabled which sets this setting to + `true` by default. core.checkStat:: When missing or is set to `default`, many fields in the stat diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8ea198a642 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +feature.*:: + The config settings that start with `feature.` modify the defaults of + a group of other config settings. These groups are created by the Git + developer community as recommended defaults and are subject to change. + In particular, new config options may be added with different defaults. + +feature.manyFiles:: + Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the + working directory. With many files, commands such as `git status` and + `git checkout` may be slow and these new defaults improve performance: ++ +* `index.version=4` enables path-prefix compression in the index. ++ +* `core.untrackedCache=true` enables the untracked cache. This setting assumes +that mtime is working on your machine. diff --git a/Documentation/config/index.txt b/Documentation/config/index.txt index f181503041..7cb50b37e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/index.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/index.txt @@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ index.threads:: 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. |