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no luck with colors for branch names in gitk yet

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Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2016, 20:48 UTC
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Someone suggested using color.branch.upstream, I tried like this and variants
[color "branch"]
  local = red bold
  upstream = red bold

Doesn't seem to matter what I put in for upstream, including invalid colors, gitk just ignores it and does the dark green for local branches

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