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git.txt: list index versions in plain English
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At the first look, a user may think the default version is "23". Even
with UNIX background, there's no reference anywhere close that may
indicate this is glob or regex.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy authored and Junio C Hamano committed Mar 24, 2015
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'GIT_INDEX_VERSION'::
This environment variable allows the specification of an index
version for new repositories. It won't affect existing index
files. By default index file version [23] is used.
files. By default index file version 2 or 3 is used. See
linkgit:git-update-index[1] for more information.

'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY'::
If the object storage directory is specified via this
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