Re: [PATCH v3 08/21] Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

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Perhaps we should declare that config will be the one and only way
in the future and start deprecating the command line option way.
That will remove the need for two to interact with each other.

That would be my preferred solution as I think it is the simplest in
the end for users.
Also, as Duy wrote above, one can always use something like "git -c
core.splitIndex= ...", which by the way can work for any command, not
just "update-index".

Anyway we would have to introduce core.splitIndex first, and it
wouldn't make sense to have a different behavior between
--[no-]split-index and --[no-]untracked-cache in the meantime before
they are deprecated and eventually removed.

So let's just go with the implementation in this series, which is
similar to --[no-]untracked-cache, and let's plan to deprecate
--[no-]split-index and --[no-]untracked-cache in a later patch series.

Sounds like we have a plan.  Thanks.