Re: [PATCH 5/6] config docs: Provide for config to specify tags not to abbreviate

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Ian Jackson
[off-list ref] 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