1 From 4137ab3807278b2576d9d682eb7896d17257cc89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
3 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 00:40:41 +0000
4 Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate
8 Please find in the following mails patches which provide a way to make
9 gitk display certain tags in full, even if they would normally be
12 There are four patches to gitk, three to prepare the ground, and one
13 to introduce the new feature.
15 There is one patch for git, to just document the new config variable.
17 I hope this is the right way to submit this series.
20 As I say in the patch "gitk: Provide for config to specify tags not to
23 The config setting is in git config logs.* rather than gitk's
24 own configuration, because:
26 - Tools which manage git trees may want to set this, depending
27 on their knowledge of the nature of the tags likely to be
30 - Whether this property ought to be set is mostly a property of the
31 contents of the tag namespaces in the tree, not a user preference.
32 (Although of course user preferences are supported.)
34 - Other git utilities (or out of tree utilities) may want to
35 reference this setting for their own display purposes.
37 There will be another, separate, patch to the `git' tree to document
40 Background motivation:
42 Debian's dgit archive gateway tool generates and uses tags called
43 archive/debian/VERSION. If such a tag refers to a Debian source tree,
44 it is probably very interesting because it refers to a version
45 actually uploaded to Debian by the Debian package maintainer.
47 We would therefore like a way to specify that such tags should be
48 displayed in full. dgit will be able to set an appropriate config
49 setting in the trees it deals with.
54 gitk: Internal: drawtags: Abolish "singletag" variable
55 gitk: Internal: drawtags: Idempotently reset "ntags"
56 gitk: drawtags: Introduce concept of unabbreviated marks
57 gitk: Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate
59 gitk | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
60 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
64 config docs: Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate
66 Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++++++
67 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)