From: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch series changes a bunch of details about how remote-tracking references are rendered in the commit list of gitk:
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* Introduce a separate constant to specify the background color used for the branch name part of remote-tracking references, to allow it to differ from the color used for local branches (which by default is bright green). * Change the default background colors for remote-tracking branches to light brown and brown (formerly they were pale orange and bright green). I understand that the colors of pixels on computer screens is an even more emotional topic that that of bikesheds, so I implemented the last change as a separate commit, the last one in the series. Feel free to drop it if you don't want the default color change.
Just to say that there was an issue with the bright green (lime) a while back when 'green' changed its colour. dscho reported in (https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/300#issuecomment-133702654 26 Aug 2015) "[T]his is a change in Tk 8.6 described here (http://wiki.tcl.tk/1424): From Tcl/Tk 8.6 on, Tk uses Web colours instead of X11 ones, where they conflict." In particular the old bright green version of 'green' became a darker green, with the old colour becoming named lime. For me, I needed to change my colour scheme (to a lime) as I could not read the refs against the darker colour. Anyway, that's the background as I know it. -- Philip