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 CPU's 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.