Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Christian Couder committed
Feb 27, 2017 at 19:00 UTC
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@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ may not support it yet.
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given again, all changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to
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the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large
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indexes that take a significant amount of time to read or write.
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+These options take effect whatever the value of the `core.splitIndex`
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+configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). But a warning is
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+emitted when the change goes against the configured value, as the
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+configured value will take effect next time the index is read and this
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+will remove the intended effect of the option.
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--untracked-cache::
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--no-untracked-cache::