Diff Color configuration feature request

[ramcdona]

The default colors for displaying a diff in the git-gui console window are red for lines removed and green for lines added.

As it turns out, red-green color blindness is the most common form and about 1 in 12 men have some red-green deficiency. This can make it difficult to easily read these diffs.

It would be great to make the color selection for this window user configurable -- like the font choice and size and other program options.

[j6t]

The options dialog is already very crowded. Would it be possible to reuse settings that apply to the command line tools?

[ramcdona]

I don't see why not. As long as the documentation leads you to find it.

You could also put the option in the .gitconfig under the [gui] tag -- without adding it to the settings dialog in the GUI itself.

I suspect that anyone who uses this option is going to want to apply it to their global config anyway.

Thanks much for considering this.

[j6t]

Just to set expectations straight: I act only as patch janitor and tell my opinion on what I think would be a reasonable solution. If you really need a feature, it's on you to write and submit a patch (or find someone who does it for you).