+index.recordOffsetTable::
+ Specifies whether the index file should include an "Index Entry
+ Offset Table" section. This reduces index load time on
+ multiprocessor machines but produces a message "ignoring IEOT
+ extension" when reading the index using Git versions before 2.20.
+ Defaults to 'false'.
Probably worth adding a test that exercises this new config option -
somehow create an index with index.recordOffsetTable=1, check that the
index contains the appropriate string (a few ways to do this, but I'm
not sure which are portable), and then run a Git command that reads the
index to make sure it is valid; then do the same except
index.recordOffsetTable=0.
The code itself looks good to me.
Same comment for patch 1.