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.

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 (\)