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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-11-28 06:24:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-11-28 06:24:13 +0300 |
| commit | 2af9664776a237baa7ce67789bc5d2b54a36d95c (patch) | |
| tree | 7175a6e86b9f6dc1448dd2527d66f64a2e30c3ab /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | 98cdf78c5cf1356757ccc4d25c212ae1f38339e4 (diff) | |
| parent | 7c4ea599b0d44e46c4f96bf955b62d96126b53ff (diff) | |
Merge branch 'lt/preload-lstat'
* lt/preload-lstat:
Fix index preloading for racy dirty case
Add cache preload facility
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 8fee253114..b233fe5352 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -413,6 +413,15 @@ data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). +core.preloadindex:: + Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' ++ +This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially +on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus +relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the +index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing +overlapping IO's. + alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation |