Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] reset: deprecate 'reset.quiet' config option

From: Phillip Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:00:46 +0000

Hi Victoria

On 21/03/2022 20:34, Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Victoria Dye <[email-masked]>

Small nit-pick about the title, I think "deprecate" is a bit misleading 
as we're actually removing the config option.

> Remove the 'reset.quiet' config option, remove '--no-quiet' documentation in
> 'Documentation/git-reset.txt'. In 4c3abd0551 (reset: add new reset.quiet
> config setting, 2018-10-23), 'reset.quiet' was introduced as a way to
> globally change the default behavior of 'git reset --mixed' to skip index
> refresh.
> 
> However, now that '--quiet' does not affect index refresh, 'reset.quiet'
> would only serve to globally silence logging. This was not the original
> intention of the config setting, and there's no precedent for such a setting
> in other commands with a '--quiet' option, so it appears to be obsolete.
> 
> In addition to the options & its documentation, remove 'reset.quiet' from
> the recommended config for 'scalar'.

Nice attention to detail

The code changes look good

Best Wishes

Phillip

> Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   Documentation/config.txt       | 2 --
>   Documentation/config/reset.txt | 2 --
>   Documentation/git-reset.txt    | 5 +----
>   builtin/reset.c                | 1 -
>   contrib/scalar/scalar.c        | 1 -
>   t/t7102-reset.sh               | 3 +--
>   6 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 Documentation/config/reset.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index f0fb25a371c..43f5e6fd6d3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -495,8 +495,6 @@ include::config/repack.txt[]
>   
>   include::config/rerere.txt[]
>   
> -include::config/reset.txt[]
> -
>   include::config/sendemail.txt[]
>   
>   include::config/sequencer.txt[]
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/reset.txt b/Documentation/config/reset.txt
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 63b7c45aac2..00000000000
> --- a/Documentation/config/reset.txt
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
> -reset.quiet::
> -	When set to true, 'git reset' will default to the '--quiet' option.
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
> index bc1646c3016..f4aca9dd35c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
> @@ -105,10 +105,7 @@ OPTIONS
>   
>   -q::
>   --quiet::
> ---no-quiet::
> -	Be quiet, only report errors. The default behavior is set by the
> -	`reset.quiet` config option. `--quiet` and `--no-quiet` will
> -	override the default behavior.
> +	Be quiet, only report errors.
>   
>   --refresh::
>   --no-refresh::
> diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c
> index 7c3828f6fc5..e824aad3604 100644
> --- a/builtin/reset.c
> +++ b/builtin/reset.c
> @@ -423,7 +423,6 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>   	};
>   
>   	git_config(git_reset_config, NULL);
> -	git_config_get_bool("reset.quiet", &quiet);
>   	git_config_get_bool("reset.refresh", &refresh);
>   
>   	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options, git_reset_usage,
> diff --git a/contrib/scalar/scalar.c b/contrib/scalar/scalar.c
> index 7db2a97416e..58ca0e56f14 100644
> --- a/contrib/scalar/scalar.c
> +++ b/contrib/scalar/scalar.c
> @@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ static int set_recommended_config(int reconfigure)
>   		{ "pack.useBitmaps", "false", 1 },
>   		{ "pack.useSparse", "true", 1 },
>   		{ "receive.autoGC", "false", 1 },
> -		{ "reset.quiet", "true", 1 },
>   		{ "feature.manyFiles", "false", 1 },
>   		{ "feature.experimental", "false", 1 },
>   		{ "fetch.unpackLimit", "1", 1 },
> diff --git a/t/t7102-reset.sh b/t/t7102-reset.sh
> index 8b62bb39b3d..9e4c4deee35 100755
> --- a/t/t7102-reset.sh
> +++ b/t/t7102-reset.sh
> @@ -488,8 +488,7 @@ test_expect_success '--mixed refreshes the index' '
>   	# Verify default behavior (without --[no-]refresh or reset.refresh)
>   	test_reset_refreshes_index &&
>   
> -	# With --quiet & reset.quiet
> -	test_reset_refreshes_index "-c reset.quiet=true" &&
> +	# With --quiet
>   	test_reset_refreshes_index "" --quiet
>   '
>