Fix verbosity bug in --collect-only

changelog/5383.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+``-q`` has again an impact on the style of the collected items
+(``--collect-only``) when ``--log-cli-level`` is used.

src/_pytest/logging.py

@@ -409,10 +409,6 @@ def __init__(self, config):
         """
         self._config = config
 
-        # enable verbose output automatically if live logging is enabled
-        if self._log_cli_enabled() and config.getoption("verbose") < 1:
-            config.option.verbose = 1
-
         self.print_logs = get_option_ini(config, "log_print")
         self.formatter = self._create_formatter(
             get_option_ini(config, "log_format"),
@@ -628,6 +624,10 @@ def pytest_sessionstart(self):
     @pytest.hookimpl(hookwrapper=True)
     def pytest_runtestloop(self, session):
         """Runs all collected test items."""
+        if self._log_cli_enabled() and self._config.getoption("verbose") < 1:
+            # setting verbose flag is needed to avoid messy test progress output
+            self._config.option.verbose = 1
+
         with self.live_logs_context():
             if self.log_file_handler is not None:
                 with catching_logs(self.log_file_handler, level=self.log_file_level):

testing/logging/test_reporting.py

@@ -916,12 +916,7 @@ def test_collection_live_logging(testdir):
 
     result = testdir.runpytest("--log-cli-level=INFO")
     result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
-        [
-            "collecting*",
-            "*--- live log collection ---*",
-            "*Normal message*",
-            "collected 0 items",
-        ]
+        ["*--- live log collection ---*", "*Normal message*", "collected 0 items"]
     )