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[Docs] Tweak some wording (#1793)
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mzacho authored Aug 27, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -14,14 +14,12 @@ known as the `native indexing method`) and the other two (`hybrid` and
`alien`) rely on external commands like `find`, `git`, etc to
obtain the list of files in a project.

The `alien` indexing method optimizes to the limit the speed of
the `hybrid` indexing method. This means that Projectile will not do
any processing or sorting of the files returned by the external commands
and you're going to get the maximum performance possible. This behaviour
makes a lot of sense for most people, as they'd typically be putting
ignores in their VCS config (e.g. `.gitignore`) and won't care about
any additional ignores/unignores/sorting that Projectile might also
provide.
The `alien` indexing method maximizes the speed of the `hybrid` indexing
method. This means that Projectile will not do any processing or sorting
of the files returned by the external commands and you're going to get
the maximum performance possible. This behaviour makes a lot of sense for
most people, as they'd typically be putting ignores in their VCS config (e.g. `.gitignore`) and won't care about any additional ignores/unignores/sorting
that Projectile might also provide.

NOTE: By default the `alien` method is used on all operating systems except Windows.
Prior to Projectile 2.0 `hybrid` used to be the default (but to make things
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