Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:47:03AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: >> On 9/22/2021 6:13 PM, Eric Wong wrote: >> > Multi-pack-index files are used by default since >> > commit 18e449f86b74bab35b150549c8342d252fe7ae00, so the >> > outdated note was misleading. >> >> You are correct that the note is misleading, but it is still correct. >> >> A user can _disable_ reading MIDX files by setting core.multiPackIndex >> to false. If this was in the user-facing docs, not the technical docs, >> then I might push back on trying to make that distinction. > > It may present a fuller picture to instead say: > > The core.multiPackIndex config setting must be on (which is the default) > to consume MIDX files. Setting it to `false` prevents Git from reading a > MIDX file, even if one exists. Do you want to replace the one-line sentence with that paragraph, instead of removing it, in a replacement patch?
