There is consensus that the default should change because it will benefit nearly all users (some just a little, but some a lot). See [1] and replies. [1]: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-status-takes-30-seconds-on-Windows-7-Why-tp7580816p7580853.html Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++-- environment.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1932e9b..4b3d965 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -613,9 +613,9 @@ core.preloadindex:: + 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 +relatively high IO latencies. When enabled, Git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing -overlapping IO's. +overlapping IO's. Defaults to true. core.createObject:: You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c index 5c4815d..1c686c9 100644 --- a/environment.c +++ b/environment.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ unsigned long pack_size_limit_cfg; char comment_line_char = '#'; /* Parallel index stat data preload? */ -int core_preload_index = 0; +int core_preload_index = 1; /* This is set by setup_git_dir_gently() and/or git_default_config() */ char *git_work_tree_cfg; -- 1.9.0.msysgit.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html