Re: [PATCH 1/4] reset: do not make '--quiet' disable index refresh

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Victoria

On 21/03/2022 20:34, Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
> 
> Update '--quiet' to no longer implicitly skip refreshing the index in a
> mixed reset. Users now have the ability to explicitly disable refreshing the
> index with the '--no-refresh' option, so they no longer need to use
> '--quiet' to do so. Moreover, we explicitly remove the refresh-skipping
> behavior from '--quiet' because it is completely unrelated to the stated
> purpose of the option: "Be quiet, only report errors."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/git-reset.txt |  5 +----
>   builtin/reset.c             |  7 -------
>   t/t7102-reset.sh            | 32 +++++---------------------------
>   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
> index 89ddc85c2e4..bc1646c3016 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
> @@ -114,10 +114,7 @@ OPTIONS
>   --no-refresh::
>   	Proactively refresh the index after a mixed reset. If unspecified, the
>   	behavior falls back on the `reset.refresh` config option. If neither
> -	`--[no-]refresh` nor `reset.refresh` are set, the default behavior is
> -	decided by the `--[no-]quiet` option and/or `reset.quiet` config.
> -	If `--quiet` is specified or `reset.quiet` is set with no command-line
> -	"quiet" setting, refresh is disabled. Otherwise, refresh is enabled.
> +	`--[no-]refresh` nor `reset.refresh` are set, refresh is enabled.
>   
>   --pathspec-from-file=<file>::
>   	Pathspec is passed in `<file>` instead of commandline args. If
> diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c
> index c8a356ec5b0..7c3828f6fc5 100644
> --- a/builtin/reset.c
> +++ b/builtin/reset.c
> @@ -430,13 +430,6 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>   						PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH);
>   	parse_args(&pathspec, argv, prefix, patch_mode, &rev);
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * If refresh is completely unspecified (either by config or by command
> -	 * line option), decide based on 'quiet'.
> -	 */
> -	if (refresh < 0)
> -		refresh = !quiet;

Does this mean we can stop initializing refresh to -1?

Best Wishes

Phillip