environment.c: enable core.preloadindex by default

shoelzer · gitster · commit 299e29870b77 · 2014-06-03T10:06:53.000-07:00
Many people are on filesystems with horrible stat latency (not limited to Windows but also NFS), which core.preloadindex was designed to help. We discussed enabling it by default early in 2013 but didn't. Per http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/219273/focus=219322 let's enable the setting by default, with the original choice of max 20 threads / min 500 paths per thread parameters. Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git 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
@@ -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;
