From: Paul Mackerras Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:17:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add a checkbox to control the visibility of tags Message-ID: <20130102071701.GG20724@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <7vlidhmc5i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:16:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Łukasz Stelmach writes: > > > Enable hiding of tags displayed in the tree as yellow labels. > > If a repository is used together with a system like Gerrit > > there may be quite a lot of tags used to control building > > and there may be hardly any place left for commit subjects. > > > > Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach > > --- > > Paul, this patch is not done against your tree (does not have gitk > at the top-level), but other than that, the change mimics the way > existing hideremoes is implemented and looks reasonable to me. > > We _may_ want to unify these two "hidestuff" into a list of patterns > that hides any ref that match one of the patterns in the list, e.g. > > set hidestuff {refs/heads/*/* refs/tags/* refs/remotes/*} > > may hide all tags, all remote-tracking branches and local branches > that have a slash in their names. If the concern is the amount of screen real-estate that the tags take up when there are many of them (which is a reasonable concern), I'd rather just put a single tag icon with "tags..." inside it and arrange to list all the tags in the diff display pane when the user clicks on it. I think that would be better than not showing the tags at all. Paul.