Re: [PATCH v3] doc/technical: update note about core.multiPackIndex
From: Derrick Stolee <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-25 17:18:04
On 9/24/2021 7:11 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
MIDX files are used by default since commit 18e449f86b74 (midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default, 2020-09-25) Helped-by: Taylor Blau [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <redacted> --- v3: I cited the wrong commit in the commit message of v2 :x
Good catch.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt index 1a73c3ee203e..86f40f24909a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ Design Details directory of an alternate. It refers only to packfiles in that same directory. -- The core.multiPackIndex config setting must be on to consume MIDX files. +- The core.multiPackIndex config setting must be on (which is the + default) to consume MIDX files. Setting it to `false` prevents + Git from reading a MIDX file, even if one exists. - The file format includes parameters for the object ID hash function, so a future change of hash algorithm does not require
This looks good to me, too! Thanks, -Stolee