On 2016-12-19 11:44 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
This patch series changes a bunch of details about how remote-tracking
references are rendered in the commit list of gitk:
Thanks for this! I like the new, compact look very much!
That said, I remember when I was a new git user and I leaned heavily on
gitk to understand how references worked. It was particularly
illuminating to see the remote references distinctly labeled, and the
fact that they were "remotes/origin/foo" gave me an Aha! moment where I
came to understand that the refs hierarchy is more flexible than just
the conventions coded into git itself. I eventually felt free to create
my own, private ref hierarchies.
I am in no way opposed to this series. I just wanted to point out that
there was some utility in those labels. It makes me think that it might
be worthwhile for gitk to have a "raw-refs" mode, that shows the full
"refs/foo/bar/baz" paths of all the heads, tags, and whatever else. It
could be a useful teaching tool for git.
* Omit the "remote/" prefix on normal remote-tracking references. They
If you re-roll, s:remote/:remotes/:.
are already distinguished via their two-tone rendering and (usually)
longer names, and this change saves a lot of visual clutter and
horizontal space.
* Render remote-tracking references that have more than the usual
three slashes like
origin/foo/bar
^^^^^^^
rather than
origin/foo/bar (formerly remotes/origin/foo/bar)
^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
, where the indicated part is the prefix that is rendered in a
different color. Usually, such a reference represents a remote
branch that contains a slash in its name, so the new split more
accurately portrays the separation between remote name and remote
branch name.
*Love* this change! :)
* 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).
Please don't change the remotebgcolor default.
Also, perhaps the default remoterefbgcolor should be
set remoterefbgcolor $headbgcolor
?
I say this because when I applied the series, without the last patch, I
was miffed that the remote/ref colour had changed.
Plus I think there's utility in having local and remote branch names in
the same colour, again especially for new users. It helps emphasize
their similarities, and demystify some of git's internal magic.
M.
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.
Along the way, I did a bunch of refactoring in the area to make these
changes easier, and introduced a constant for the background color of
"other" references so that it can also be adjusted by users.
(Unfortunately, these colors can only be adjusted by editing the
configuration file. Someday it would be nice to allow them to be
configured via the preferences dialog.)
It's been a while since I've written any Tcl code, so I apologize in
advance for any howlers :-)
This branch applies against the `master` branch in
git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk.
Michael
Michael Haggerty (13):
gitk: when processing tag labels, don't use `marks` as scratch space
gitk: keep track of tag types in a separate `types` array
gitk: use a type "tags" to indicate abbreviated tags
gitk: use a type "mainhead" to indicate the main HEAD branch
gitk: fill in `wvals` as the tags are first processed
gitk: simplify regexp
gitk: extract a method `remotereftext`
gitk: only change the color of the "remote" part of remote refs
gitk: shorten labels displayed for modern remote-tracking refs
gitk: use type "remote" for remote-tracking references
gitk: introduce a constant otherrefbgcolor
gitk: add a configuration setting `remoterefbgcolor`
gitk: change the default colors for remote-tracking references
gitk | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)