On 12/19/2016 11:53 PM, Philip Oakley wrote: > 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: >> > [...] >> * 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. Thanks for the context. In fact, it was this color change that got me looking at this code in the first place. For anyone still suffering from the "green background of branch labels in gitk got too dark" problem: The default color in gitk was made lighter again in 66db14c "gitk: Color name update", 2015-10-25 But your own configuration might still have "green" written in it, from the days when "green" was still bright. If so, change the value for `headbgcolor` to `lime` in `~/.config/git/gitk`. It would be nice if these colors were adjustable via the "Preferences -> Colors" dialog. Michael