Re: [PATCH] environment: enable core.preloadindex by default

> 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@gmail.com>
> ---

>  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;