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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] doc/technical: update note about core.multiPackIndex
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:11:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210924111136.GA15127@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210923201252.GA25980@dcvr>

MIDX files are used by default since commit 18e449f86b74
(midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default, 2020-09-25)

Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
---
 v3: I cited the wrong commit in the commit message of v2 :x

 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-24 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-22 22:13 [PATCH] doc/technical: remove outdated MIDX default note Eric Wong
2021-09-23 13:47 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-09-23 17:45   ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-23 20:12     ` [PATCH v2] doc/technical: update note about core.multiPackIndex Eric Wong
2021-09-23 20:21       ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-24 11:11       ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-09-25 17:17         ` [PATCH v3] " Derrick Stolee
2021-09-23 20:27     ` [PATCH] doc/technical: remove outdated MIDX default note Junio C Hamano
2021-09-23 20:32       ` Taylor Blau

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