This patch series changes a bunch of details about how remote-tracking references are rendered in the commit list of gitk:
* Omit the "remote/" prefix on normal remote-tracking references. They 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. * 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. 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(-) -- 2.9.3