From d1c8e4b9f79acbc010a4c958bb588122024f4445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Paulik <cpaulik@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:38:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Disable projectile-caching by default.

- Default projectile settings are to disable caching when indexing
  method is `alien. So setting the indexing method should be enough.
- On windows we keep the 'native method unless find is found
---
 doc/DOCUMENTATION.org                           |  3 +++
 layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/packages.el | 14 ++++++--------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org b/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org
index 8b087bea4..60f94251c 100644
--- a/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org
+++ b/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org
@@ -2495,6 +2495,9 @@ To search in a project see [[Searching in a project][project searching]].
     | ~SPC s k p~ | run =ack=                                             |
     | ~SPC s p p~ | run =pt=                                              |
 
+*Note for Windows Users*: To enable fast indexing the GNU ~find~ or
+Cygwin ~find~ must be in your ~PATH~.
+
 ** Registers
 Access commands to the various registers start with =r=:
 
diff --git a/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/packages.el b/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/packages.el
index cf13218ee..e58baa513 100644
--- a/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/packages.el
+++ b/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/packages.el
@@ -1230,14 +1230,12 @@ ARG non nil means that the editing style is `vim'."
                projectile-vc)
     :init
     (progn
-      ;; note for Windows: GNU find or Cygwin find must be in path
-      ;; default parameters are not supported on Windows, we default
-      ;; to simplest call to find.
-      (when (spacemacs/system-is-mswindows)
-        (setq projectile-generic-command "find . -type f"))
-      (setq projectile-enable-caching t
-            projectile-indexing-method 'alien
-            projectile-sort-order 'recentf
+      ;; note for Windows: GNU find or Cygwin find must be in path to enable
+      ;; fast indexing
+      (when (and (spacemacs/system-is-mswindows) (executable-find "find"))
+          (setq  projectile-indexing-method 'alien)
+                 projectile-generic-command "find . -type f")
+      (setq projectile-sort-order 'recentf
             projectile-cache-file (concat spacemacs-cache-directory
                                           "projectile.cache")
             projectile-known-projects-file (concat spacemacs-cache-directory