Not to hijack my own thread, but FWIW git branch -r shows remote
branches in red, but old/new status of a remote branch is ambiguous
(could have new stuff, could be out of date). Also, git branch -vv
shows remote tracking branches in blue. One could argue it should be
red since git branch -r is in red.

But yea, probably best to take this topic to its own thread.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:02 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Rafael Ascensão wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 02:17:08PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

Do we want to limit this to git-branch, though? Ideally any output you
get from git-branch could be replicated with for-each-ref (or with
a custom "branch --format").

I.e., could we have a format in ref-filter that matches HEAD, but
returns a distinct symbol for a worktree HEAD? That would allow a few
things:

I was going to suggest using dim green and green for elsewhere and here
respectively, in a similar way how range-diff uses it to show different
versions of the same diff.

It would be really useful to (just via E-Mail to start) itemize the
colors we use in various places and what they mean.

E.g. I thought green here made sense because in "diff" we show the
old/new as red/green, so the branch you're on is "new" in the same
sense, i.e. it's what your current state is.

But maybe there's cases where that doesn't "rhyme" as it were.