Re: [PATCH v3 23/24] introduce GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2013, 00:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8A_gJXUm2WVPCXDZbWFCusvyoEUJaGJT_ROC9uzxc_A6w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1376854933-31241-24-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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 for additional safety.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
> ---
>  read-cache.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

There should be a line or two about this variable in git.txt, section "Environment variables". We could even have core.defaultIndexVersion for people who don't want to set environment variables (and set this key in ~/.gitconfig instead) but this is not important now.

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Duy