Documentation/config/index.txt

   1 index.recordEndOfIndexEntries::
   2         Specifies whether the index file should include an "End Of Index
   3         Entry" section. This reduces index load time on multiprocessor
   4         machines but produces a message "ignoring EOIE extension" when
   5         reading the index using Git versions before 2.20. Defaults to
   6         'true' if index.threads has been explicitly enabled, 'false'
   7         otherwise.
   8
   9 index.recordOffsetTable::
  10         Specifies whether the index file should include an "Index Entry
  11         Offset Table" section. This reduces index load time on
  12         multiprocessor machines but produces a message "ignoring IEOT
  13         extension" when reading the index using Git versions before 2.20.
  14         Defaults to 'true' if index.threads has been explicitly enabled,
  15         'false' otherwise.
  16
  17 index.sparse::
  18         When enabled, write the index using sparse-directory entries. This
  19         has no effect unless `core.sparseCheckout` and
  20         `core.sparseCheckoutCone` are both enabled. Defaults to 'false'.
  21
  22 index.threads::
  23         Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index.
  24         This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines.
  25         Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of
  26         CPUs and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or
  27         'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'.
  28
  29 index.version::
  30         Specify the version with which new index files should be
  31         initialized.  This does not affect existing repositories.
  32         If `feature.manyFiles` is enabled, then the default is 4.
  33
  34 index.skipHash::
  35         When enabled, do not compute the trailing hash for the index file.
  36         This accelerates Git commands that manipulate the index, such as
  37         `git add`, `git commit`, or `git status`. Instead of storing the
  38         checksum, write a trailing set of bytes with value zero, indicating
  39         that the computation was skipped.
  40 +
  41 If you enable `index.skipHash`, then Git clients older than 2.13.0 will
  42 refuse to parse the index and Git clients older than 2.40.0 will report an
  43 error during `git fsck`.