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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/19] reset [--mixed] --quiet: don't refresh index
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:12:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7gnm6uhm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiSa6joBuAJVHkMfNbVMHFJ6BFOh7sGRw_txRO81CKudRwsfA@mail.gmail.com> (Martin von Zweigbergk's message of "Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:43:20 -0800")

Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> writes:

>> We have never been very clear about which commands refresh the index.
>
> Yes, git-reset's documentation doesn't mention it.
>
>> Since "reset" is about manipulating the index, I'd expect it to be
>> refreshed afterwards. On the other hand, since we have never guaranteed
>> anything, perhaps a careful script should always use "git update-index
>> --refresh".
>
> Since "git diff-files" is a plumbing command, users of it to a
> hopefully a bit more careful than regular users, but you never know.
>
>> I would not be too surprised if some of our own scripts are
>> not that careful, though.
>
> I didn't find any, but I might have missed something.

contrib/examples/ have some, but looking at it makes me realize that
we have been fairly careful to avoid using "git reset" which is a
Porcelain.

And as a Porcelain, I would rather expect it to leave the resulting
index refreshed.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-09 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09  8:15 [PATCH 00/19] reset improvements Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:15 ` [PATCH 01/19] reset $pathspec: no need to discard index Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:15 ` [PATCH 02/19] reset $pathspec: exit with code 0 if successful Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 03/19] reset.c: pass pathspec around instead of (prefix, argv) pair Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 11:42   ` Matt Kraai
2013-01-09 19:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-10 11:05     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-10 23:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-11 11:10         ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 04/19] reset: don't allow "git reset -- $pathspec" in bare repo Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-10  8:24     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-10 18:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 05/19] reset.c: extract function for parsing arguments Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 06/19] reset.c: remove unnecessary variable 'i' Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-10  8:41     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 07/19] reset.c: extract function for updating {ORIG,}HEAD Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 11:54   ` Matt Kraai
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 08/19] reset.c: share call to die_if_unmerged_cache() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-10  8:51     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 09/19] reset.c: replace switch by if-else Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-11  6:35     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-11 17:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 10/19] reset --keep: only write index file once Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 11/19] reset: avoid redundant error message Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 12/19] reset.c: move update_index_refresh() call out of read_from_tree() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 13/19] reset.c: move lock, write and commit out of update_index_refresh() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 14/19] reset [--mixed]: don't write index file twice Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 15/19] reset.c: finish entire cmd_reset() whether or not pathspec is given Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 16/19] reset [--mixed] --quiet: don't refresh index Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 17:01   ` Jeff King
2013-01-09 18:43     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 19:12       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-01-09 19:38         ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 20:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 17/19] reset $sha1 $pathspec: require $sha1 only to be treeish Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 20:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 18/19] reset: allow reset on unborn branch Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 19/19] reset [--mixed]: use diff-based reset whether or not pathspec was given Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-09 20:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-15  5:47 ` [PATCH v2 00/19] reset improvements Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 01/19] reset $pathspec: no need to discard index Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 02/19] reset $pathspec: exit with code 0 if successful Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 03/19] reset.c: pass pathspec around instead of (prefix, argv) pair Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 04/19] reset: don't allow "git reset -- $pathspec" in bare repo Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 05/19] reset.c: extract function for parsing arguments Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 06/19] reset.c: remove unnecessary variable 'i' Martin von Zweigbergk
     [not found]     ` <A5E8E180685CEF45AB9E737A010799805E00DD@cdnz-ex1.corp.cubic.cub>
2013-01-15 18:36       ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 07/19] reset.c: extract function for updating {ORIG_,}HEAD Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 08/19] reset.c: share call to die_if_unmerged_cache() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 09/19] reset --keep: only write index file once Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 10/19] reset: avoid redundant error message Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 11/19] reset.c: replace switch by if-else Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 12/19] reset.c: move update_index_refresh() call out of read_from_tree() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 13/19] reset.c: move lock, write and commit out of update_index_refresh() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 14/19] reset [--mixed]: only write index file once Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 15/19] reset.c: finish entire cmd_reset() whether or not pathspec is given Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 16/19] reset.c: inline update_index_refresh() Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 17/19] reset $sha1 $pathspec: require $sha1 only to be treeish Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-16 18:00     ` [PATCH v2 17/19] fixup! " Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-16 18:08       ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 18/19] reset: allow reset on unborn branch Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-01-15  5:47   ` [PATCH v2 19/19] reset [--mixed]: use diff-based reset whether or not pathspec was given Martin von Zweigbergk

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