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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: [RFC/PATCH 6/8] Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:22:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160711172254.13439-7-chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160711172254.13439-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 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.
 
 --untracked-cache::
 --no-untracked-cache::
-- 
2.9.0.250.g7087ccc.dirty


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-11 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-11 17:22 [RFC/PATCH 0/8] Add configuration options for split-index Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/8] config: add git_config_get_split_index() Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/8] split-index: add {add,remove}_split_index() functions Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/8] read-cache: add and then use tweak_split_index() Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/8] update-index: warn in case of split-index incoherency Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/8] Documentation/config: add information for core.splitIndex Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 7/8] t1700: add tests " Christian Couder
2016-07-11 17:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 8/8] read-cache: unlink old sharedindex files Christian Couder
2016-07-11 18:27   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-12  7:04     ` Christian Couder
2016-07-12 15:12       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-12 19:45         ` Christian Couder
2016-07-13 15:16           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-13 17:54             ` Christian Couder
2016-07-12 16:01 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/8] Add configuration options for split-index Duy Nguyen
2016-07-23 16:11   ` Christian Couder
2016-07-25 16:04     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-25 21:18       ` Christian Couder

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