[PATCH] gitk: use config settings for head/tag colors

From: Shannon Barber via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 13, 2026, 06:28 UTC
Message-ID: <pull.2030.git.1768285721660.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Shannon Barber <sbarber@dataspeedinc.com>

The drawtags procedure currently uses headfgcolor for all label text,
 ignoring the tagfgcolor setting.

The call to create the outline polygon for (non-tag) heads currently
 has the color for headoutlinecolor hardcoded to black.

This patch maintains the variables for the non-tag refs so that heads
 are colored differently from non-head (non-tag) refs.

The outline and fill colors for the non-head refs remain hardcoded to
 the prior values, black & #ddddff.

Signed-off-by: Shannon Barber <sgbarber@gmail.com>
---
    gitk: use headoutlinecolor, headbgcolor, and tagfgcolor config settings
    to change the color of the tags and head outlines and fill
    
    This patch makes the config settings, headoutlinecolor and tagfgcolor,
    work. These are existing config settings but not used in the code.
    
    (I noticed that tagfgcolor was not working while making an extension for
    vscode that exports its color theme to gitk.) (Upon review of the code I
    found that headoutlinecolor was also not used and investigated and fixed
    it.)
    
    This simple patch has them affect the target UI elements while drawing
    refs and their outlined boxes. Tags are drawn in their own code branch
    then heads and non-heads are drawn in another one. Because both head and
    non-head refs are drawn in the same loop the colors used to draw (and
    fill) toggle between the head colors and (still hard-coded) non-head ref
    colors.
    
    Image showing it working, reviewing the patch that made it work.
    gitk-colors
    [https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0eea207d-0891-41c8-8c6d-1464a96a1c76]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2030%2FMagmaiKH%2Fsbarber%2Fuse_color_config_variables-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2030/MagmaiKH/sbarber/use_color_config_variables-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2030

 gitk-git/gitk | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index 7f62c8041d..0415abd873 100755
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk
@@ -6831,16 +6831,18 @@ proc drawtags {id x xt y1} {
         } else {
             # draw a head or other ref
             if {[incr nheads -1] >= 0} {
-                set col $headbgcolor
+                set refoutlinecol $headoutlinecolor
+                set reffillcol $headbgcolor
                 if {$tag eq $mainhead} {
                     set font mainfontbold
                 }
             } else {
-                set col "#ddddff"
+                set refoutlinecol black
+                set reffillcol "#ddddff"
             }
             set xl [expr {$xl - $delta/2}]
             $canv create polygon $x $yt $xr $yt $xr $yb $x $yb \
-                -width 1 -outline black -fill $col -tags tag.$id
+                -width 1 -outline $refoutlinecol -fill $reffillcol -tags tag.$id
             if {[regexp {^(remotes/.*/|remotes/)} $tag match remoteprefix]} {
                 set rwid [font measure mainfont $remoteprefix]
                 set xi [expr {$x + 1}]
@@ -6850,7 +6852,8 @@ proc drawtags {id x xt y1} {
                         -width 0 -fill $remotebgcolor -tags tag.$id
             }
         }
-        set t [$canv create text $xl $y1 -anchor w -text $tag -fill $headfgcolor \
+        set textfgcolor [expr {$ntags >= 0 ? $tagfgcolor : $headfgcolor}]
+        set t [$canv create text $xl $y1 -anchor w -text $tag -fill $textfgcolor \
                    -font $font -tags [list tag.$id text]]
         if {$ntags >= 0} {
             $canv bind $t <1> $tagclick

base-commit: d529f3a197364881746f558e5652f0236131eb86

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