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[RFC/PATCH 6/8] Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var

From: Christian Couder <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-11 17:23:39
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index c6cbed1..2293140 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ may not support it yet.
 	given again, all changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to
 	the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large
 	indexes that take a significant amount of time to read or write.
++
+These options take effect whatever the value of the `core.splitIndex`
+configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). But a warning is
+emitted when the change goes against the configured value, as the
+configured value will take effect next time the index is read and this
+will remove the intended effect of the option.
 
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 --no-untracked-cache::
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