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index.recordEndOfIndexEntries

Specifies whether the index file should include an "End Of Index Entry" section. This reduces index load time on multiprocessor machines but produces a message "ignoring EOIE extension" when reading the index using Git versions before 2.20. Defaults to 'true' if index.threads has been explicitly enabled, 'false' otherwise.

index.recordOffsetTable

Specifies whether the index file should include an "Index Entry Offset Table" section. This reduces index load time on multiprocessor machines but produces a message "ignoring IEOT extension" when reading the index using Git versions before 2.20. Defaults to 'true' if index.threads has been explicitly enabled, 'false' otherwise.

index.sparse

When enabled, write the index using sparse-directory entries. This has no effect unless core.sparseCheckout and core.sparseCheckoutCone are both enabled. Defaults to 'false'.

index.threads

Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index. This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines. Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPUs and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or 'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'.

index.version

Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. If feature.manyFiles is enabled, then the default is 4.

index.skipHash

When enabled, do not compute the trailing hash for the index file. This accelerates Git commands that manipulate the index, such as git add, git commit, or git status. Instead of storing the checksum, write a trailing set of bytes with value zero, indicating that the computation was skipped.

If you enable index.skipHash, then Git clients older than 2.13.0 will refuse to parse the index and Git clients older than 2.40.0 will report an error during git fsck.