1 From 4137ab3807278b2576d9d682eb7896d17257cc89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
3 CC: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
4 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
5 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 00:40:41 +0000
6 Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate
10 Please find in the following mails patches which provide a way to make
11 gitk display certain tags in full, even if they would normally be
14 There are four patches to gitk, three to prepare the ground, and one
15 to introduce the new feature.
17 There is one patch for git, to just document the new config variable.
19 I hope this is the right way to submit this series. Thanks for your
23 As I say in the patch "gitk: Provide for config to specify tags not to
26 The config setting is in git config logs.* rather than gitk's
27 own configuration, because:
29 - Tools which manage git trees may want to set this, depending
30 on their knowledge of the nature of the tags likely to be
33 - Whether this property ought to be set is mostly a property of the
34 contents of the tag namespaces in the tree, not a user preference.
35 (Although of course user preferences are supported.)
37 - Other git utilities (or out of tree utilities) may want to
38 reference this setting for their own display purposes.
40 There will be another, separate, patch to the `git' tree to document
43 Background motivation:
45 Debian's dgit archive gateway tool generates and uses tags called
46 archive/debian/VERSION. If such a tag refers to a Debian source tree,
47 it is probably very interesting because it refers to a version
48 actually uploaded to Debian by the Debian package maintainer.
50 We would therefore like a way to specify that such tags should be
51 displayed in full. dgit will be able to set an appropriate config
52 setting in the trees it deals with.
57 gitk: Internal: drawtags: Abolish "singletag" variable
58 gitk: Internal: drawtags: Idempotently reset "ntags"
59 gitk: drawtags: Introduce concept of unabbreviated marks
60 gitk: Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate
62 gitk | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
63 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
67 config docs: Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate
69 Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++++++
70 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)