Print Color-Coded SVN Status

May 23rd, 09

I’ve been having difficulty in reading SVN status, which tells you which files in a project have been modified, added, or having a conflict with other developer’s changes. Status code in front of each line alone doesn’t help me quickly identifying one status code from another so I wrote a script to color code the lines with different colors according to their statuses. If you’re having the same issue, feel free to use the code below

#!/usr/bin/python

"""

 Author: Saophalkun Ponlu (http://phalkunz.com)

 Contact: phalkunz@gmail.com

 Date: May 23, 2009

"""

import sys, os, re

# add more status & color codes 

colors = {

    "M": "31",      # red 

    "\?": "32",     # green

    "C": "30;41"    # black on red

}

# build a paramter list

parameters = "";

for i in range(1, sys.argv.__len__()):

    parameters += sys.argv[i] + " ";

status = os.popen('svn st ' + parameters);

for line in status:

    passed = False

    # remove newline character from the line

    line = re.sub("\n", "", line)

    for color in colors:

        match = re.match(color+(" "*6), line)

        if match:   

            os.popen("echo '\E[" + colors[color] + "m" + line + "\E[m'", 'w')

            passed = True

    if(passed):

        continue

    os.popen("echo \"" + line + "\"", 'w')