Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] reset: make --no-refresh the only way to skip index refresh

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:33:10 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> ... as you suggested, I think mimicking how existing commands with
> "--no-<option>" are shown, e.g. builtlin/update-ref.c does
> "--no-deref",
>
>     $ git update-ref -h 2>&1 | grep deref
>         --no-deref            update <refname> not the one it points to
>     $ git grep 'OPT_BOOL.*"no-deref"'
>     builtin/update-ref.c:		OPT_BOOL( 0 , "no-deref", &no_deref,
>
> would be a good approach.
>
>> The range-diff for the other changes looks good
>
> Thanks.
>
> #leftoverbit: we may want to discuss if it is a good idea to teach
> OPT_BOOL() to list "--[no-]<option>" in "git cmd -h", instead of
> just "--<option>".

Unfortunately, I merged these already to 'next' before seeing your
comment, so we'd need to go incremental.

How about this?

----- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 -----
Subject: [PATCH] reset: show --no-refresh in the short-help

In the short help output from "git reset -h", the recently added
"--[no-]refresh" option is shown like so:

        --refresh             skip refreshing the index after reset

which explains what happens when the option is given in the negative
form, i.e. "--no-refresh".  We could rephrase the explanation to
read "refresh the index after reset (default)" to hint that the user
can say "--no-refresh" to override the default, but listing the
"--no-refresh" form in the list of options would be more helpful.

Helped-by: Phillip Wood <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/reset.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git c/builtin/reset.c w/builtin/reset.c
index 1d89faef5e..344fff8f3a 100644
--- c/builtin/reset.c
+++ w/builtin/reset.c
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ static int git_reset_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	int reset_type = NONE, update_ref_status = 0, quiet = 0;
-	int refresh = 1;
+	int no_refresh = 0;
 	int patch_mode = 0, pathspec_file_nul = 0, unborn;
 	const char *rev, *pathspec_from_file = NULL;
 	struct object_id oid;
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int intent_to_add = 0;
 	const struct option options[] = {
 		OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("be quiet, only report errors")),
-		OPT_BOOL(0, "refresh", &refresh,
+		OPT_BOOL(0, "no-refresh", &no_refresh,
 				N_("skip refreshing the index after reset")),
 		OPT_SET_INT(0, "mixed", &reset_type,
 						N_("reset HEAD and index"), MIXED),
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			if (read_from_tree(&pathspec, &oid, intent_to_add))
 				return 1;
 			the_index.updated_skipworktree = 1;
-			if (refresh && get_git_work_tree()) {
+			if (!no_refresh && get_git_work_tree()) {
 				uint64_t t_begin, t_delta_in_ms;
 
 				t_begin = getnanotime();