From f2e20f52e0afc1acc15601808782eb3495331ec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael B. Gale" <mbg@github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 10:01:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Rename `getDefaultConfig` and update doc comment

---
 lib/init-action.js       | 4 ++--
 src/config-utils.test.ts | 2 +-
 src/config-utils.ts      | 7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/init-action.js b/lib/init-action.js
index ccfd60205..af7beae48 100644
--- a/lib/init-action.js
+++ b/lib/init-action.js
@@ -87238,7 +87238,7 @@ async function getRawLanguages(languagesInput, repository, sourceRoot, logger) {
     autodetected: true
   };
 }
-async function getDefaultConfig({
+async function initActionState({
   analysisKindsInput,
   languagesInput,
   queriesInput,
@@ -87604,7 +87604,7 @@ async function initConfig(inputs) {
       tempDir
     );
   }
-  const config = await getDefaultConfig(inputs, userConfig);
+  const config = await initActionState(inputs, userConfig);
   const { overlayDatabaseMode, useOverlayDatabaseCaching } = await getOverlayDatabaseMode(
     inputs.codeql,
     inputs.repository,
diff --git a/src/config-utils.test.ts b/src/config-utils.test.ts
index 98b5491ad..c78ba6a33 100644
--- a/src/config-utils.test.ts
+++ b/src/config-utils.test.ts
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ test("load empty config", async (t) => {
       }),
     );
 
-    const expectedConfig = await configUtils.getDefaultConfig(
+    const expectedConfig = await configUtils.initActionState(
       createTestInitConfigInputs({
         languagesInput: languages,
         tempDir,
diff --git a/src/config-utils.ts b/src/config-utils.ts
index af768ad11..66e50e74d 100644
--- a/src/config-utils.ts
+++ b/src/config-utils.ts
@@ -508,9 +508,10 @@ export interface InitConfigInputs {
 }
 
 /**
- * Get the default config, populated without user configuration file.
+ * Initialise the CodeQL Action state, which includes the base configuration for the Action
+ * and computes the configuration for the CodeQL CLI.
  */
-export async function getDefaultConfig(
+export async function initActionState(
   {
     analysisKindsInput,
     languagesInput,
@@ -1107,7 +1108,7 @@ export async function initConfig(inputs: InitConfigInputs): Promise<Config> {
     );
   }
 
-  const config = await getDefaultConfig(inputs, userConfig);
+  const config = await initActionState(inputs, userConfig);
 
   // The choice of overlay database mode depends on the selection of languages
   // and queries, which in turn depends on the user config and the augmentation