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[PATCH] git.txt: list index versions in plain English

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 24, 2015, 00:28 UTC
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<1427156913-4491-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

At the first look, a user may think the default version is "23". Even with UNIX background, there's no reference anywhere close that may indicate this is glob or regex.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index b37f1ab..29d9257 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -766,7 +766,8 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc.
 '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.
+	files.  By default index file version 2 or 3 is used. See
+	linkgit:git-update-index[1] for more information.
 
 'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY'::
 	If the object storage directory is specified via this
-- 
2.2.0.513.g477eb31
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