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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 |