Package com.intellij.vcs.log

Interface VcsRefType

All Known Implementing Classes:

SimpleRefType

public interface VcsRefType

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.awt.Color	getBackgroundColor() Returns the background color which should be used to paint a reference label of this type.
boolean	isBranch() Tells if this reference type should be considered a branch.

Method Detail

isBranch

boolean isBranch()

Tells if this reference type should be considered a branch.

Although there are different ref types across different VCSs, generally they can be divided into development branches producing separate branches in the graph, and tags which are just handy labels to specific repository states. This difference is not clear enough for Git branches or Mercurial bookmarks, which internally have no differences with tags, but they are still considered as branches due to their purpose, rather than to their internal structure.

Although this is implementation specific and may change, here are some examples of the difference between branches and not-branches considering the VCS Log:

• branch references stop collapsing of long linear branches, while tags don't.
• branches try to keep their color through time, while tags don't affect colors of branches.

getBackgroundColor

java.awt.Color getBackgroundColor()

Returns the background color which should be used to paint a reference label of this type. TODO maybe this is not the right place for color