First there was: [http://snipplr.com/view/15246/color-coded-svn-status](http://snipplr.com/view/15246/color-coded-svn-status)

Then there was: [http://snipplr.com/view/16540/color-coded-svn-status-v2](http://snipplr.com/view/16540/color-coded-svn-status-v2)

A few days ago, I found a handy script online that colorized the output of SVN status. It worked pretty well, but needed a little polish and a couple of tweaks to make it use more common Python idioms. As I continued to use it and fix bugs and inefficiencies, I ended up replacing nearly every line in the original, but it was still a great starting point.

Additional changes include ANSI word-wrapping, a configurable tab expansion feature (for better code alignment), the 'colorizedSubcommands' sequence so that only applicable commands get colorized, use of proper `subprocess` module calls so that piping through `less` will work (for example, try `svn-color diff | less -r` to see colorized diff output).

To use, stick it somewhere, make executable (`chmod 755`), and then add this to your .profile:

alias svn=/usr/local/bin/svn-color.py

I hope you find my modifications useful. You can modify the colors used by looking up the ANSI color codes for your preferred color scheme and editing the 'statusColors' dictionary. Here's a useful reference for ANSI color values:

[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/colortable.gif](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/colortable.gif)

Requires Python 2.4 or greater.

#!/usr/bin/env python
 
"""
 Author: Saophalkun Ponlu (http://phalkunz.com)
 Contact: [email protected]
 Date: May 23, 2009
 Modified: June 15, 2009
 
 Additional modifications:
 Author: Phil Christensen (http://bubblehouse.org)
 Contact: [email protected]
 Date: February 22, 2010
"""
 
import os, sys, re, subprocess
 
tabsize = 4
 
colorizedSubcommands = (
	'status',
	'add',
	'remove',
	'diff',
)
 
statusColors = {
    "M"     : "31",     # red 
    "\?"    : "37",     # grey
    "A"     : "32",     # green
    "X"     : "33",     # yellow
    "C"     : "30;41",  # black on red
    "-"     : "31",     # red
    "D"     : "31;1",   # bold red
    "\+"    : "32",     # green
}
 
def colorize(line): 
    for color in statusColors:
        if re.match(color, line):
            return ''.join(("\001\033[", statusColors[color], "m", line, "\033[m\002"))
    else:
        return line
 
def escape(s):
    s = s.replace('$', r'\$')
    s = s.replace('"', r'\"')
    s = s.replace('`', r'\`')
    return s
 
passthru = lambda x: x
quoted = lambda x: '"%s"' % escape(x)
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    cmd = ' '.join(['svn']+[(passthru, quoted)[' ' in arg](arg) for arg in sys.argv[1:]])
    output = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    cancelled = False
    for line in output.stdout:
        line = line.expandtabs(tabsize)
        if(sys.argv[1] in colorizedSubcommands):
            line = colorize(line)
        try:
            sys.stdout.write(line)
        except:
            sys.exit(1)