Re: changing colors in the tree view in gitk

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 6, 2016, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061450300.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <3FAE862069E24321A6E31D9F0CB66E35@PhilipOakley>

Hi Philip,

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Philip Oakley wrote:

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> From: "Britton Kerin" <britton.kerin@gmail.com>
> >I upgraded from 2.5 to 2.7 and the branch names went from a light
> > green to dark green, the names of the tags are hard to read now.
> >
> > Is it possible to configure the branch name color in the tree view?
> > --
> Which Operating System is this on? and which Git version.?
> 
> 
> For the Git for Windows, the Mintty window colours can be adjusted. e.g.
> https://code.google.com/archive/p/mintty/wikis/Tips.wiki
> 
> Though I just changed my config setting for the awkward to read items (for me
> it was color.branch.upstream=green !)

I think Britton was talking about gitk, not about the console.

As it happens, this issue was already reported to the Git for Windows bug tracker:

	https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/300

It would appear that the culprit is a change in Tcl/Tk, not in gitk. I outlined a possible solution in that ticket but have no plans to implement that solution myself.

Ciao, Johannes