# [PATCH] gitk: pretty print tag objects

1 messages from 2008-03-31 to 2008-03-31. Participants: Sven Marnach.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12935

## Sven Marnach, 2008-03-31 20:29

Subject: [PATCH] gitk: pretty print tag objects
Message-ID: <20080331202929.GA4094@pantoffel-wg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080331202929.GA4094%40pantoffel-wg.de

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Currently, tag objects are shown as the raw tag object contents.  By
pretty printing them, the time stamp is shown in a more readable
format (and this is actually the only difference to the raw format).

Signed-off-by: Sven Marnach <sven.marnach@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de>
---
 gitk-git/gitk |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index 84ab02e..4581893 100644
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk
@@ -7843,7 +7843,7 @@ proc showtag {tag isnew} {
     set linknum 0
     if {![info exists tagcontents($tag)]} {
 	catch {
-	    set tagcontents($tag) [exec git cat-file tag $tagobjid($tag)]
+	    set tagcontents($tag) [exec git cat-file -p $tagobjid($tag)]
 	}
     }
     if {[info exists tagcontents($tag)]} {
-- 
debian.1.5.5_rc2.1

```