Subject: [PATCH v3] doc/technical: update note about core.multiPackIndex

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:11:36 +0000

MIDX files are used by default since commit 18e449f86b74
(midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default, 2020-09-25)

Helped-by: Taylor Blau <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
---
 v3: I cited the wrong commit in the commit message of v2 :x

 Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt
index 1a73c3ee203e..86f40f24909a 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ Design Details
   directory of an alternate. It refers only to packfiles in that
   same directory.
 
-- The core.multiPackIndex config setting must be on to consume MIDX files.
+- The core.multiPackIndex config setting must be on (which is the
+  default) to consume MIDX files.  Setting it to `false` prevents
+  Git from reading a MIDX file, even if one exists.
 
 - The file format includes parameters for the object ID hash
   function, so a future change of hash algorithm does not require