Colorize SVN

colorize-svn.sh

# Colorize SVN
# ------------
# Adds color to the output of commands like svn status and svn update.
# The original version of the script was posted by Ash_ on Stackoverflow
# Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8786400/svn-add-colors-on-command-line-svn-with-awk-in-bash
function svn {
  # Skip the color script when running an svn commit.
  if [ "x$1" = "xci" ] || [ "x$1" =  "xcommit" ] || [ "x$1" = "xadd" ]
  then
    command svn "$@";
    return;
  fi

  # Pipe svn through awk to colorize its output.
  command svn "$@" | awk '
  BEGIN {
    cpt_c=0;
  }
  {
    if        ($1=="C") {
      cpt_c=cpt_c+1;
      print "\033[31m" $0 "\033[00m";  # Conflicts are displayed in red
    }
    else if   ($1=="M") {
      print "\033[31m" $0 "\033[00m";  # Modified in red
    }
    else if   ($1=="A") {
      print "\033[32m" $0 "\033[00m";  # Add in green
    }
    else if   ($1=="?") {
      print "\033[36m" $0 "\033[00m";  # New in cyan
    }
    else if   ($1=="D") {
      print "\033[31m" $0 "\033[00m";  # Delete in red
    }
    else if   ($1=="U") {
      print "\033[35m" $0 "\033[00m";  # Updated in light magenta
    }
    else if   ($1=="X") {
      print "\033[33m" $0 "\033[00m";  # No changes in yellow.
    }
    else if   ($1=="At" || $1 == "External") {
      print "\033[33m" $0 "\033[00m";  # Revision numbers in brown.
    }
    else                {
      print $0;                        # No color, just print the line
    }
  }
  END {
    print cpt_c, " conflicts are found.";
  }';
}

In standard configuration (svn only), note that discovered conflicts are stopping the script : indeed, when a file is conflicted, svn is handed over to the user, to let him type a few letters (see below)

# svn update
Conflict discovered in 'test.txt'.
Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit,
        (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict,
        (s) show all options:

Please follow the discussion on Stackoverflow

hi its good but is we can also color to see which code we delete and which we updated like git ++ and -- with color

This was great!

To be able to redirect the output of these commands nicely though, I've added a bash test for tty output to the check for svn commit or add so that line 8 now reads:

 if [ "x$1" = "xci" ] || [ "x$1" =  "xcommit" ] || [ "x$1" = "xadd" ] || [ ! -t 1 ]

which gives something like the standard --color=auto option for other commands (grep, ls etc).

Hello guys,

I'm the initial author of this snippet, and I've decided to bring it back to life: https://github.com/4wk-/beautifulSVN

@arvind-clarion: in the past few years, I already made this feature. See the link above ;)
@benkrikler: in my updated version, the svn add command is supported with beautifulSVN. Could you please try it, and let me now if you have any trouble? So far, I never encountered any difficulties with this specific sub-command, but I'ld be glad to fix it ;)

Thanks