The "FUNNYNAMES" test prerequisite passes on Cygwin, as the Cygwin
file system interface has a workaround for the underlying operating
system's lack of support for tabs, newlines or quotes. However, it does
not add support for backslash, which is treated as a directory
separator, meaning one of the tests added by 48803821b1 ("completion:
handle unusual characters for sparse-checkout", 2022-02-07) will fail on
Cygwin.
To avoid this failure while still getting maximal test coverage, split
that test into two: test handling of paths that include tabs on anything
that has the FUNNYNAMES prerequisite, but skip testing handling of paths
that include backslashes unless both FUNNYNAMES is set and the system is
not Cygwin.
It might be nice to have more granularity than "FUNNYNAMES" and its
sibling "FUNNIERNAMES" provide, so that tests could be run based on
specific individual characters supported by the file system being
tested, but that seems like it would make the prerequisite checks in
this area much more verbose for very little gain.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git worktree list --porcelain" did not c-quote pathnames and lock
reasons with unsafe bytes correctly, which is worked around by
introducing NUL terminated output format with "-z".
* pw/worktree-list-with-z:
worktree: add -z option for list subcommand
Built-in fsmonitor (part 2).
* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (30 commits)
t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
fsmonitor: force update index after large responses
fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system
fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files
t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases
t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows
t/perf/p7519: fix coding style
t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows
t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo
t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon
t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon
help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows
fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache
fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids
fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification
fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command
...
Give hint when branch tracking cannot be established because fetch
refspecs from multiple remote repositories overlap.
* tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec:
tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
"git fetch --refetch" learned to fetch everything without telling
the other side what we already have, which is useful when you
cannot trust what you have in the local object store.
* rc/fetch-refetch:
docs: mention --refetch fetch option
fetch: after refetch, encourage auto gc repacking
t5615-partial-clone: add test for fetch --refetch
fetch: add --refetch option
builtin/fetch-pack: add --refetch option
fetch-pack: add refetch
fetch-negotiator: add specific noop initializer
A handful of obvious clean-ups around a topic that is already in
'master'.
* gc/branch-recurse-submodules-fix:
branch.c: simplify advice-and-die sequence
branch: rework comments for future developers
branch: remove negative exit code
branch --set-upstream-to: be consistent when advising
branch: give submodule updating advice before exit
branch: support more tracking modes when recursing
Code clean-up.
* ds/partial-bundle-more:
pack-objects: lazily set up "struct rev_info", don't leak
bundle: output hash information in 'verify'
bundle: move capabilities to end of 'verify'
pack-objects: parse --filter directly into revs.filter
pack-objects: move revs out of get_object_list()
list-objects-filter: remove CL_ARG__FILTER
"git ls-tree" learns "--oid-only" option, similar to "--name-only",
and more generalized "--format" option.
* tl/ls-tree-oid-only:
ls-tree: split up "fast path" callbacks
ls-tree: detect and error on --name-only --name-status
ls-tree: support --object-only option for "git-ls-tree"
ls-tree: introduce "--format" option
cocci: allow padding with `strbuf_addf()`
ls-tree: introduce struct "show_tree_data"
ls-tree: slightly refactor `show_tree()`
ls-tree: fix "--name-only" and "--long" combined use bug
ls-tree: simplify nesting if/else logic in "show_tree()"
ls-tree: rename "retval" to "recurse" in "show_tree()"
ls-tree: use "size_t", not "int" for "struct strbuf"'s "len"
ls-tree: use "enum object_type", not {blob,tree,commit}_type
ls-tree: add missing braces to "else" arms
ls-tree: remove commented-out code
ls-tree tests: add tests for --name-status
"git reflog" command now uses parse-options API to parse its
command line options.
* ab/reflog-parse-options:
reflog: fix 'show' subcommand's argv
reflog [show]: display sensible -h output
reflog: convert to parse_options() API
reflog exists: use parse_options() API
git reflog [expire|delete]: make -h output consistent with SYNOPSIS
reflog: move "usage" variables and use macros
reflog tests: add missing "git reflog exists" tests
reflog: refactor cmd_reflog() to "if" branches
reflog.c: indent argument lists
The error "not tracking: ambiguous information for ref" is raised
when we are evaluating what tracking information to set on a branch,
and find that the ref to be added as tracking branch is mapped
under multiple remotes' fetch refspecs.
This can easily happen when a user copy-pastes a remote definition
in their git config, and forgets to change the tracking path.
Add advice in this situation, explicitly highlighting which remotes
are involved and suggesting how to correct the situation. Also
update a test to explicitly expect that advice.
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a -z option to be used in conjunction with --porcelain that gives
NUL-terminated output. As 'worktree list --porcelain' does not quote
worktree paths this enables it to handle worktree paths that contain
newlines.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update tests around the use of hook scripts.
* ab/hook-tests-updates:
http tests: use "test_hook" for "smart" and "dumb" http tests
proc-receive hook tests: use "test_hook" instead of "write_script"
tests: extend "test_hook" for "rm" and "chmod -x", convert "$HOOK"
tests: use "test_hook" for misc "mkdir -p" and "chmod" cases
tests: change "mkdir -p && write_script" to use "test_hook"
tests: change "cat && chmod +x" to use "test_hook"
gc + p4 tests: use "test_hook", remove sub-shells
fetch+push tests: use "test_hook" and "test_when_finished" pattern
bugreport tests: tighten up "git bugreport -s hooks" test
tests: assume the hooks are disabled by default
http tests: don't rely on "hook/post-update.sample"
hook tests: turn exit code assertions into a loop
test-lib-functions: add and use a "test_hook" wrapper
"git stash" does not allow subcommands it internally runs as its
implementation detail, except for "git reset", to emit messages;
now "git reset" part has also been squelched.
* vd/stash-silence-reset:
reset: show --no-refresh in the short-help
reset: remove 'reset.refresh' config option
reset: remove 'reset.quiet' config option
reset: do not make '--quiet' disable index refresh
stash: make internal resets quiet and refresh index
reset: suppress '--no-refresh' advice if logging is silenced
reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice
reset: introduce --[no-]refresh option to --mixed
reset: revise index refresh advice
"git branch --recurse-submodules" does not propagate "--track=inherit"
or "--no-track" to submodules, which causes submodule branches to use
the wrong tracking mode [1]. To fix this, pass the correct options to
the "submodule--helper create-branch" child process and test for it.
While we are refactoring the same code, replace "--track" with the
synonymous, but more consistent-looking "--track=direct" option
(introduced at the same time as "--track=inherit", d3115660b4 (branch:
add flags and config to inherit tracking, 2021-12-20)).
[1] This bug is partially a timing issue: "branch --recurse-submodules"
was introduced around the same time as "--track=inherit", and even
though I rebased "branch --recurse-submodules" on top of that, I had
neglected to support the new tracking mode. Omitting "--no-track"
was just a plain old mistake, though.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some global trace2 statistics for the number of fsyncs performed
during the lifetime of a Git process.
These stats are printed as part of trace2_cmd_exit_fl, which is
presumably where we might want to print any other cross-cutting
statistics.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase $base $non_branch_commit", when $base is an ancestor or
the $non_branch_commit, modified the current branch, which has been
corrected.
* jc/rebase-detach-fix:
rebase: set REF_HEAD_DETACH in checkout_up_to_date()
rebase: use test_commit helper in setup
When "shallow" information is updated, we forgot to update the
in-core equivalent, which has been corrected.
* jt/reset-grafts-when-resetting-shallow:
shallow: reset commit grafts when shallow is reset
Correct a bug in unpack-trees introduced earlier.
* vd/cache-bottom-fix:
Revert "unpack-trees: improve performance of next_cache_entry"
unpack-trees: increment cache_bottom for sparse directories
t1092: add sparse directory before cone in test repo
Update the stat info of the moved index entry in 'rename_index_entry_at()'
if the entry is up-to-date with the index. Internally, 'git mv' uses
'rename_index_entry_at()' to move the source index entry to the destination.
However, it directly copies the stat info of the original cache entry, which
will not reflect the 'ctime' of the file renaming operation that happened as
part of the move. If a file is otherwise up-to-date with the index, that
difference in 'ctime' will make the entry appear out-of-date until the next
index-refreshing operation (e.g., 'git status').
Some commands, such as 'git reset', use the cached stat information to
determine whether a file is up-to-date; if this information is incorrect,
the command will fail when it should pass. In order to ensure a moved entry
is evaluated as 'up-to-date' when appropriate, refresh the destination index
entry's stat info in 'git mv' if and only if the file is up-to-date.
Note that the test added in 't7001-mv.sh' requires a "sleep 1" to ensure the
'ctime' of the file creation will be definitively older than the 'ctime' of
the renamed file in 'git mv'.
Reported-by: Maximilian Reichel <reichemn@icloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After invoking `fetch --refetch`, the object db will likely contain many
duplicate objects. If auto-maintenance is enabled, invoke it with
appropriate settings to encourage repacking/consolidation.
* gc.autoPackLimit: unless this is set to 0 (disabled), override the
value to 1 to force pack consolidation.
* maintenance.incremental-repack.auto: unless this is set to 0, override
the value to -1 to force incremental repacking.
Signed-off-by: Robert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a test for doing a refetch to apply a changed partial clone filter
under protocol v0 and v2.
Signed-off-by: Robert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git fetch --recurse-submodules" grabbed submodule commits
that would be needed to recursively check out newly fetched commits
in the superproject, it only paid attention to submodules that are
in the current checkout of the superproject. We now do so for all
submodules that have been run "git submodule init" on.
* gc/recursive-fetch-with-unused-submodules:
submodule: fix latent check_has_commit() bug
fetch: fetch unpopulated, changed submodules
submodule: move logic into fetch_task_create()
submodule: extract get_fetch_task()
submodule: store new submodule commits oid_array in a struct
submodule: inline submodule_commits() into caller
submodule: make static functions read submodules from commits
t5526: create superproject commits with test helper
t5526: stop asserting on stderr literally
t5526: introduce test helper to assert on fetches
Create 2x2 test matrix with the untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
features and a series of edits and verify that status output is
identical.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Repeat all of the fsmonitor perf tests using `git fsmonitor--daemon` and
the "Simple IPC" interface.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change p7519 to use `test_seq` and `xargs` rather than a `for` loop
to touch thousands of files. This takes minutes off of test runs
on Windows because of process creation overhead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach `test-tool.exe chmtime` to ignore errors when setting the mtime
on a directory on Windows.
NEEDSWORK: The Windows version of `utime()` (aka `mingw_utime()`) does
not properly handle directories because it uses `_wopen()`. It should
be converted to using `CreateFileW()` and backup semantics at a minimum.
Since I'm already in the middle of a large patch series, I did not want
to destabilize other callers of `utime()` right now. The problem has
only been observed in the t/perf/p7519 test when the test repo contains
an empty directory on disk.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not copy any of the various fsmonitor--daemon files from the .git
directory of the (GIT_PREF_REPO or GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO) source repo
into the test's trash directory.
When perf tests start, they copy the contents of the source repo into
the test's trash directory. If fsmonitor is running in the source repo,
there may be control files, such as the IPC socket and/or fsmonitor
cookie files. These should not be copied into the test repo.
Unix domain sockets cannot be copied in the manner used by the test
setup, so if present, the test setup fails.
Cookie files are harmless, but we should avoid them.
The builtin fsmonitor keeps all such control files/sockets in
.git/fsmonitor--daemon*, so it is simple to exclude them.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create an IPC client to send query and flush commands to the daemon.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the "feature: fsmonitor--daemon" message to the output of
`git version --build-options`.
The builtin FSMonitor is only available on certain platforms and
even then only when certain Makefile flags are enabled, so print
a message in the verbose version output when it is available.
This can be used by test scripts for prereq testing. Granted, tests
could just try `git fsmonitor--daemon status` and look for a 128 exit
code or grep for a "not supported" message on stderr, but these
methods are rather obscure.
The main advantage is that the feature message will automatically
appear in bug reports and other support requests.
This concept was also used during the development of Scalar for
similar reasons.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move fsmonitor config settings to a new and opaque
`struct fsmonitor_settings` structure. Add a lazily-loaded pointer
to this into `struct repo_settings`
Create an `enum fsmonitor_mode` type in `struct fsmonitor_settings` to
represent the state of fsmonitor. This lets us represent which, if
any, fsmonitor provider (hook or IPC) is enabled.
Create `fsm_settings__get_*()` getters to lazily look up fsmonitor-
related config settings.
Get rid of the `core_fsmonitor` global variable. Move the code to
lookup the existing `core.fsmonitor` config value into the fsmonitor
settings.
Create a hook pathname variable in `struct fsmonitor-settings` and
only set it when in hook mode.
Extend the definition of `core.fsmonitor` to be either a boolean
or a hook pathname. When true, the builtin FSMonitor is used.
When false or unset, no FSMonitor (neither builtin nor hook) is
used.
The existing `core_fsmonitor` global variable was used to store the
pathname to the fsmonitor hook *and* it was used as a boolean to see
if fsmonitor was enabled. This dual usage and global visibility leads
to confusion when we add the IPC-based provider. So lets hide the
details in fsmonitor-settings.c and let it decide which provider to
use in the case of multiple settings. This avoids cluttering up
repo-settings.c with these private details.
A future commit in builtin-fsmonitor series will add the ability to
disqualify worktrees for various reasons, such as being mounted from a
remote volume, where fsmonitor should not be started. Having the
config settings hidden in fsmonitor-settings.c allows such worktree
restrictions to override the config values used.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The implementation of test_subcommand_inexact() was originally
introduced in e4d0c11c0 (repack: respect kept objects with '--write-midx
-b', 2021-12-20) with the intention to allow finding a subcommand based
on an initial set of arguments. The inexactness was intended as a way to
allow flexible options beyond that initial set, as opposed to
test_subcommand() which requires that the full list of options is
provided in its entirety.
The implementation began by copying test_subcommand() and replaced the
repeated argument 'printf' statement to append ".*" instead of "," to
each argument. This caused it to be more flexible than initially
intended.
The previous change deleted the only use of test_subcommand_inexact, so
instead of editing the helper, delete it.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '--write-midx -b packs non-kept objects' test in t7700-repack.sh
uses test_subcommand_inexact to check that 'git repack' properly adds
the '--honor-pack-keep' flag to the 'git pack-objects' subcommand.
However, the test_subcommand_inexact helper is more flexible than
initially designed, and this instance is the only one that makes use of
it: there are additional arguments between 'git pack-objects' and the
'--honor-pack-keep' flag. In order to make test_subcommand_inexact more
strict, we need to fix this instance.
This test checks that 'git repack --write-midx -a -b -d' will create a
new pack-file that does not contain the objects within the kept pack.
This behavior is possible because of the multi-pack-index bitmap that
will bitmap objects against multiple packs. Without --write-midx, the
objects in the kept pack would be duplicated so the resulting pack is
closed under reachability and bitmaps can be created against it. This is
discussed in more detail in e4d0c11c0 (repack: respect kept objects with
'--write-midx -b', 2021-12-20) which also introduced this instance of
test_subcommand_inexact.
To better verify the intended post-conditions while also removing this
instance of test_subcommand_inexact, rewrite the test to check the list
of packed objects in the kept pack and the list of the objects in the
newly-repacked pack-file _other_ than the kept pack. These lists should
be disjoint.
Be sure to include a non-kept pack-file and loose objects to be extra
careful that this is properly behaving with kept packs and not just
avoiding repacking all pack-files.
Co-authored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the "--immediate" option so that it emits valid TAP on
failure. Before this it would omit the required plan at the end,
e.g. under SANITIZE=leak we'd show a "No plan found in TAP output"
error from "prove":
$ prove t0006-date.sh :: --immediate
t0006-date.sh .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/22 subtests
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t0006-date.sh (Wstat: 256 Tests: 22 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 22
Non-zero exit status: 1
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
Files=1, Tests=22, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.01 sys + 0.18 cusr 0.06 csys = 0.27 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Now we'll emit output that doesn't result in TAP parsing failures:
$ prove t0006-date.sh :: --immediate
t0006-date.sh .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/22 subtests
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t0006-date.sh (Wstat: 256 Tests: 22 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 22
Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=1, Tests=22, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.19 cusr 0.05 csys = 0.26 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.34:
Git 2.34.2
Git 2.33.2
Git 2.32.1
Git 2.31.2
GIT-VERSION-GEN: bump to v2.33.1
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.33:
Git 2.33.2
Git 2.32.1
Git 2.31.2
GIT-VERSION-GEN: bump to v2.33.1
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.32:
Git 2.32.1
Git 2.31.2
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.31:
Git 2.31.2
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.30:
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
When determining the length of the longest ancestor of a given path with
respect to to e.g. `GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES`, we special-case the root
directory by returning 0 (i.e. we pretend that the path `/` does not end
in a slash by virtually stripping it).
That is the correct behavior because when normalizing paths, the root
directory is special: all other directory paths have their trailing
slash stripped, but not the root directory's path (because it would
become the empty string, which is not a legal path).
However, this special-casing of the root directory in
`longest_ancestor_length()` completely forgets about Windows-style root
directories, e.g. `C:\`. These _also_ get normalized with a trailing
slash (because `C:` would actually refer to the current directory on
that drive, not necessarily to its root directory).
In fc56c7b34b (mingw: accomodate t0060-path-utils for MSYS2,
2016-01-27), we almost got it right. We noticed that
`longest_ancestor_length()` expects a slash _after_ the matched prefix,
and if the prefix already ends in a slash, the normalized path won't
ever match and -1 is returned.
But then that commit went astray: The correct fix is not to adjust the
_tests_ to expect an incorrect -1 when that function is fed a prefix
that ends in a slash, but instead to treat such a prefix as if the
trailing slash had been removed.
Likewise, that function needs to handle the case where it is fed a path
that ends in a slash (not only a prefix that ends in a slash): if it
matches the prefix (plus trailing slash), we still need to verify that
the path does not end there, otherwise the prefix is not actually an
ancestor of the path but identical to it (and we need to return -1 in
that case).
With these two adjustments, we no longer need to play games in t0060
where we only add `$rootoff` if the passed prefix is different from the
MSYS2 pseudo root, instead we also add it for the MSYS2 pseudo root
itself. We do have to be careful to skip that logic entirely for Windows
paths, though, because they do are not subject to that MSYS2 pseudo root
treatment.
This patch fixes the scenario where a user has set
`GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=C:\`, which would be ignored otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Change the "git reflog show -h" output to show the usage summary
relevant to it, rather than displaying the same output that "git log
-h" would show.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the work started in 33d7bdd645 (builtin/reflog.c: use
parse-options api for expire, delete subcommands, 2022-01-06) and
convert the cmd_reflog() function itself to use the parse_options()
API.
Let's also add a test which would fail if we forgot
PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP here, as well as making sure that we'll
still pass through "--" by supplying PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH. For that
test we need to change "test_commit()" to accept files starting with
"--".
The "git reflog -h" usage will now show the usage for all of the
sub-commands, rather than a terse summary which wasn't
correct (e.g. "git reflog exists" is not a valid command). See my
8757b35d44 (commit-graph: define common usage with a macro,
2021-08-23) for prior art.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the 'reset.refresh' option, requiring that users explicitly specify
'--no-refresh' if they want to skip refreshing the index.
The 'reset.refresh' option was introduced in 101cee42dd (reset: introduce
--[no-]refresh option to --mixed, 2022-03-11) as a replacement for the
refresh-skipping behavior originally controlled by 'reset.quiet'.
Although 'reset.refresh=false' functionally served the same purpose as
'reset.quiet=true', it exposed [1] the fact that the existence of a global
"skip refresh" option could potentially cause problems for users. Allowing a
global config option to avoid refreshing the index forces scripts using 'git
reset --mixed' to defensively use '--refresh' if index refresh is expected;
if that option is missing, behavior of a script could vary from user-to-user
without explanation.
Furthermore, globally disabling index refresh in 'reset --mixed' was
initially devised as a passive performance improvement; since the
introduction of the option, other changes have been made to Git (e.g., the
sparse index) with a greater potential performance impact without
sacrificing index correctness. Therefore, we can more aggressively err on
the side of correctness and limit the cases of skipping index refresh to
only when a user specifies the '--no-refresh' option.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy2179o3c.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
