Re: no luck with colors for branch names in gitk yet

From: Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2016, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CAC4O8c81h-JEGN2mS=SgUnBQM+A-RojDBOY65f=Jmubo6CZCwA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B88DD991725D43E19185D46EED20FDDF@PhilipOakley>

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

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> From: "Britton Kerin" <britton.kerin@gmail.com>
>>
>> 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
>> --
>
> Alternate, try
> https://github.com/oumu/mintty-color-schemes/blob/master/base16-mintty/base16-default.minttyrc
> (or any of the other colour schemes) and copy them into your .minttyrc file
> (works for me on g4w : git version 2.7.0.windows.1 )

I'm on linux so I think mintty is not an option. Also, I'm a little surprised in affects the rendering of branch tags in gitk, I would have thought that would be an X or window system thing.

Britton