From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc: Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, derrickstolee@github.com,
Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] reset: introduce --[no-]refresh option to --mixed
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:17:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy2179o3c.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80a5f411-2ddb-177f-4139-1dfff436deda@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:08:31 +0000")
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> This keeps the current behavior of not refreshing when --quiet is
> given. I wonder how disruptive it would be to take the opportunity to
> get rid of that hack and go back the the original behavior of
> refreshing when --quiet is given. There are a couple of assumptions
> that make me think it might be acceptable
>
> 1 - anyone using a sparse index wont notice as refreshing the index
> should be fast for them
>
> 2 - the large repositories that are affected exist in managed
> environments where an admin who reads the release notes could set
> reset.refresh in a central config so individual users are not
> inconvenienced.
I would very much prefer to see "--quiet" not making contribution to
the decision to refresh or not in the longer term. Many plumbing
commands expect that the calling scripts refresh the index with an
explicit use of "update-index --refresh" and leave the index not
refreshed, but working on unrefreshed index is a trade-off between
performance and correctness.
* Turning "--quiet" not to refresh may incur performance regression
for shorter term. It will not hurt correctness.
* Introducing "--no-refresh" to mark "reset --quiet" invocations,
where the freshness of the index does not matter for correctness,
would help regain performance without breaking scripts. All
"reset --quiet" invocations in scripts written before this series
are supposed to be safe (as they lived with their "reset --quiet"
that does not refresh), but newly written scripts may start
expecting that "reset --quiet" would refresh for correctness.
* If we allow reset.refresh to be set to "no", however, that would
affect _all_ uses of "reset --quiet", including the ones in newly
written scripts that expect "reset --quiet" to refresh. They
would be forced to say "reset --quiet --refresh", just in case
the user has such a configuration; otherwise these scripts will
be declared "buggy" for not explicitly saying "--refresh".
I do not think reset.refresh is a good idea, but I very much like
the idea to making "reset" (regardless of "--quiet") to refresh by
default.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-18 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-12 0:08 [PATCH 0/5] Separate '--skip-refresh' from '--quiet' in 'reset', use '--quiet' internally in 'stash' Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-12 0:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] reset: revise index refresh advice Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-12 0:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] reset: introduce --[no-]refresh option to --mixed Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 15:05 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-14 15:13 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-14 15:55 ` Victoria Dye
2022-03-12 0:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-12 0:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] reset: suppress '--no-refresh' advice if logging is silenced Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-12 0:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] stash: make internal resets quiet and refresh index Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 15:10 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-14 15:56 ` Victoria Dye
2022-03-12 17:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] Separate '--skip-refresh' from '--quiet' in 'reset', use '--quiet' internally in 'stash' Victoria Dye
2022-03-14 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-14 15:13 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-14 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Allow 'reset --quiet' to refresh the index, use 'reset --quiet' " Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] reset: revise index refresh advice Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] reset: introduce --[no-]refresh option to --mixed Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-14 23:48 ` Victoria Dye
2022-03-14 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] reset: suppress '--no-refresh' advice if logging is silenced Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 19:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-14 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] stash: make internal resets quiet and refresh index Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-14 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-14 23:54 ` Victoria Dye
2022-03-14 16:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Allow 'reset --quiet' to refresh the index, use 'reset --quiet' in 'stash' Derrick Stolee
2022-03-14 23:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-15 1:49 ` [PATCH v3 " Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-15 1:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] reset: revise index refresh advice Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-15 1:49 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] reset: introduce --[no-]refresh option to --mixed Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-18 11:08 ` Phillip Wood
2022-03-18 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-03-18 19:19 ` Victoria Dye
2022-03-15 1:49 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-15 1:49 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] reset: suppress '--no-refresh' advice if logging is silenced Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-15 1:49 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] stash: make internal resets quiet and refresh index Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2022-03-15 10:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-16 20:07 ` Victoria Dye
2022-03-16 20:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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