# changing colors in the tree view in gitk 3 messages from 2016-02-05 to 2016-02-06. Participants: Britton Kerin, Philip Oakley, Johannes Schindelin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41342 ## Britton Kerin, 2016-02-05 17:24 Subject: changing colors in the tree view in gitk Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAC4O8c-8cXCfu7GdCS6bx5RMfw_Y8PgPeOhH6Zb5awyi-Qt4tw%40mail.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? ``` ## Philip Oakley, 2016-02-05 19:05 Subject: Re: changing colors in the tree view in gitk Message-ID: <3FAE862069E24321A6E31D9F0CB66E35@PhilipOakley> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3FAE862069E24321A6E31D9F0CB66E35%40PhilipOakley In-Reply-To: ``` From: "Britton Kerin" >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 !) -- Philip ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2016-02-06 13:55 Subject: Re: changing colors in the tree view in gitk Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061450300.2964%40virtualbox In-Reply-To: <3FAE862069E24321A6E31D9F0CB66E35@PhilipOakley> ``` Hi Philip, On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Philip Oakley wrote: > From: "Britton Kerin" > >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 ```