From: Jacob Keller Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:28:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] config docs: Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20161108005241.19888-6-ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > +log.noAbbrevTags:: > + Each value is a glob pattern, specifying tag nammes which > + should always be displayed in full, even when other tags may > + be omitted or abbreviated (for example, by linkgit:gitk[1]). > + Values starting with `^` specify tags which should be > + abbreviated. The order is important: the last match, in the > + most-local configuration, wins. > + It seems weird that this description implies some sort of behavior change in core git itself, but in fact is only used as a reference for other tools that may or may not honor it. I guess the reasoning here is to try to get other external tools that abbreviate tags to also honor this? But it still seems pretty weird to have a documented config that has no code in core git to honor it... Thanks, Jake