colorsvn
While working on merging 2.5 into our local trunk, I was doing a bunch of svn merge --dry-run, svn merge statements, and thought “wouldn’t it be nice if subversion could color-code the status output for me.”
svn help didn’t produce a –color or –colorize option, so some googling lead first to a handy sed recipe: sed -e $'s/^C/\e[31m&\e[0m/g' and finally to a reference to colorsvn — a Perl script which gives me a commandline utility that will automatically colorize the status messages from subversion.
Excellent.
Update: Mostly excellent. Doesn’t seem to like svn commands that include flags that don’t start with - or — like working copy paths, or merge branches. Will have to dip into the code later to take a look at that…
Update2: Back to excellent. Should have known — make install put in an /etc/colorsvnrc file in behind my back that excluded merge and some of the other commands from colorization by default. Color’s back, and back to making things rock 
Tags: color, development, merge, subversion, svn, tools, utility