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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html