When invoking ls
, I would like to have file names with a different color depending on their subversion status. For example, an added file will be cyan, a modifi
As far as I know, it is not possible to achieve that with pure bash (scripting aside).
You can quite easily get colorised file listing using scripts (bash, python, perl, whatever your poison). Here's a rather crude proof-of-concept implementation written in python : https://gist.github.com/776093
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
colormap = {
"M" : "31", # red
"?" : "37;41", # grey
"A" : "32", # green
"X" : "33", # yellow
"C" : "30;41", # black on red
"-" : "31", # red
"D" : "31;1", # bold red
"+" : "32", # green
}
re_svnout = re.compile(r'(.)\s+(.+)$')
file_status = {}
def colorise(line, key):
if key in colormap.keys():
return "\001\033[%sm%s\033[m\002" % (colormap[key], line)
else:
return line
def get_svn_status():
cmd = "svn status"
output = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
for line in output.stdout:
match = re_svnout.match(line)
if match:
status, f = match.group(1), match.group(2)
# if sub directory has changes, mark it as modified
if "/" in f:
f = f.split("/")[0]
status = "M"
file_status[f] = status
if __name__ == "__main__":
get_svn_status()
for L in Popen("ls", shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout:
line = L.strip()
status = file_status.get(line, False)
print colorise(line, status)
Here's a Gist with the 3rd generation of a small script to colorize SVN output. It works perfectly for svn status
commands. I just added alias svns="/path/to/svn-color.py status"
to my .bash_profile
and now I can type svns
and see the color-coded output. The author recommends making svn
default to his script.