Linus Torvalds writes: > Of course, _usually_ it's just the top commit, and it's obvious that way > which one is the checked-out one, but if you do "gitk --all" or just > generally have multiple branches, right now it's hard to see what commit > is the checked-out one, regardless of whether it's detached or not. If it's not detached, the branch name is in bold, but evidently that's either not intuitive or not sufficiently distinct... > I think "HEAD" in a green box would solve that too, but on the other hand, > we have a *lot* of boxes already. For people who mainly just track another > repo, you already have one box saying "master", and another one saying > "remotes/origin/master", and adding yet *another* box saying HEAD that > just points to the same commit will work, but do we really want that? > > I actually like the red circle for "Local uncommitted changes". Maybe we > can use a similar visual clue for "currently checked out". You already > picked green for the "added to the index" case, so we have the three > primary RGB colors already used, but we could make it just be a deep > yellow. > > Of course, maybe people hate lots of colos already, and something more > akin to the text background thing that we use for the selected commit > would be better. > > I dunno. There's so many options. > > Here's a "make it yellow" patch. Thanks. I have checked in something similar, that also handles the cases where you update the graph and the head has moved, and when you do a checkout or reset using the gitk menus. Paul. -- 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
