Re: Tags only shown on log with --decorate?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 9, 2010, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20100909194823.GB1146@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimOEQY9xJvindxuVPZotmWXZ=Ya9088ghL--Xuf@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:25:30PM -0300, Carlos Eduardo da Fonseca wrote:

> I was wondering, why tags are only shown on log with --decorate, even
> signed tags?
> I have no problem in writing "--decorate", but tags, which are marks
> for something important, should be decorations?

There are two reasons I can think of not to want to see them:

  1. They take extra time to lookup (though really for most repos, I
     doubt it is even measurable).

  2. We did not historically show them, so some people find them
     distracting, and the default has never been switched to "on".

You can turn them on all the time with:

  git config --global log.decorate true

-Peff