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authorLibravatar Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>2014-02-23 21:49:57 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-02-24 09:48:40 -0800
commit136347d718320c56030e3b7a3437259e99c4c41b (patch)
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parentGit 1.9.0 (diff)
downloadtgif-136347d718320c56030e3b7a3437259e99c4c41b.tar.xz
introduce GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable
Respect a GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable, when a new index is initialized. Setting the environment variable will not cause existing index files to be converted to another format, but will only affect newly written index files. This can be used to initialize repositories with index-v4. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -720,6 +720,11 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc.
index file. If not specified, the default of `$GIT_DIR/index`
is used.
+'GIT_INDEX_VERSION'::
+ This environment variable allows the specification of an index
+ version for new repositories. It won't affect existing index
+ files. By default index file version [23] is used.
+
'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY'::
If the object storage directory is specified via this
environment variable then the sha1 directories are created