Set or change THG (TortoiseHg) branch color

Question

Sometimes by accident, or by who knows what, TortoiseHg changes branch colors.

I tried to find in the documentation how to set branch colors explicitly, but it didn't worked.

I tried an extension named 'color' but don't know how to configure it.

Suddenly

Answer 1

It seems the Workbench settings UI can help with the correct syntax for the config file.

It can be used as documented: branchname:#HTML_Color, just need to put it in the correct setting name

What is in the config file at the end is:

branchcolors = Stable:#FC951E

, using orange for the Stable branch Stable:#FC951E

As documented officially, the value is SPACE separated list of branches.

Spaces and colons in the branch name must be escaped using a backslash (\)

Suddenly

You forgot to mention "It's space separated list of NAME:#RGB", if more than one branch-color have to be defined + some special chars in branch's name must be escaped unicode-codes – Insnare

Yes, indeed! It is stated in the documentation though. I will mention it anyway. – Suddenly

Note that this setting does not take effect immediately. I needed to restart TortoiseHg. – Mormon