From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:57:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 23/24] introduce GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable
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:
> 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.
-- 
Duy