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[PATCH] Colourise git-branch output

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2006, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID
<200612112210.08327.andyparkins@gmail.com>

I wanted to have a visual indication of which branches are local and which are remote in git-branch -a output; however Junio was concerned that someone might be using the output in a script. This patch addresses the problem by colouring the git-branch output - which in "auto" mode won't be activated.

I've based it off the colouring code for builtin-diff.c; which means there is a branch.color configuration variable that needs setting to something before the color will appear.

This patch chooses green for local, red for remote and bold green for current.

As yet, there is no support for changing the colors using the config file; but it wouldn't be hard to add.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---
I know Junio isn't keen on adding colour all over the place in git; but I
think it's appropriate here.  When running in "git-branch -a" mode (or even
"git-branch -r" mode for that matter), because the "refs/remotes" prefix is
stripped from the branch name, there is no way to distinguish between local
and remote branches.  Colouring them makes it easy to see which is which,
but more importantly doesn't break any scripts because the colour would be
automatically disabled.
 builtin-branch.c |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-branch.c b/builtin-branch.c
index 3d5cb0e..1c1fa8f 100644
--- a/builtin-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-branch.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  * Based on git-branch.sh by Junio C Hamano.
  */
 
+#include "color.h"
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "refs.h"
 #include "commit.h"
@@ -17,6 +18,38 @@ static const char builtin_branch_usage[] =
 static const char *head;
 static unsigned char head_sha1[20];
 
+static int branch_use_color;
+static char branch_colors[][COLOR_MAXLEN] = {
+	"\033[m",	/* reset */
+	"",		/* PLAIN (normal) */
+	"\033[31m",	/* REMOTE (red) */
+	"\033[32m",	/* LOCAL (green) */
+	"\033[1;32m",	/* CURRENT (boldgreen) */
+};
+enum color_branch {
+	COLOR_BRANCH_RESET = 0,
+	COLOR_BRANCH_PLAIN = 1,
+	COLOR_BRANCH_REMOTE = 2,
+	COLOR_BRANCH_LOCAL = 3,
+	COLOR_BRANCH_CURRENT = 4,
+};
+
+int git_branch_config(const char *var, const char *value)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(var, "branch.color")) {
+		branch_use_color = git_config_colorbool(var, value);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	return git_default_config(var, value);
+}
+
+const char *branch_get_color(enum color_branch ix)
+{
+	if (branch_use_color)
+		return branch_colors[ix];
+	return "";
+}
+
 static int in_merge_bases(const unsigned char *sha1,
 			  struct commit *rev1,
 			  struct commit *rev2)
@@ -183,6 +216,7 @@ static void print_ref_list(int kinds, int verbose, int abbrev)
 	int i;
 	char c;
 	struct ref_list ref_list;
+	int color;
 
 	memset(&ref_list, 0, sizeof(ref_list));
 	ref_list.kinds = kinds;
@@ -191,18 +225,38 @@ static void print_ref_list(int kinds, int verbose, int abbrev)
 	qsort(ref_list.list, ref_list.index, sizeof(struct ref_item), ref_cmp);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ref_list.index; i++) {
+		switch( ref_list.list[i].kind ) {
+			case REF_LOCAL_BRANCH:
+				color = COLOR_BRANCH_LOCAL;
+				break;
+			case REF_REMOTE_BRANCH:
+				color = COLOR_BRANCH_REMOTE;
+				break;
+			default:
+				color = COLOR_BRANCH_PLAIN;
+				break;
+		}
+
 		c = ' ';
 		if (ref_list.list[i].kind == REF_LOCAL_BRANCH &&
-				!strcmp(ref_list.list[i].name, head))
+				!strcmp(ref_list.list[i].name, head)) {
 			c = '*';
+			color = COLOR_BRANCH_CURRENT;
+		}
 
 		if (verbose) {
-			printf("%c %-*s", c, ref_list.maxwidth,
-			       ref_list.list[i].name);
+			printf("%c %s%-*s%s", c,
+					branch_get_color(color),
+					ref_list.maxwidth,
+					ref_list.list[i].name,
+					branch_get_color(COLOR_BRANCH_RESET));
 			print_ref_info(ref_list.list[i].sha1, abbrev);
 		}
 		else
-			printf("%c %s\n", c, ref_list.list[i].name);
+			printf("%c %s%s%s\n", c,
+					branch_get_color(color),
+					ref_list.list[i].name,
+					branch_get_color(COLOR_BRANCH_RESET));
 	}
 
 	free_ref_list(&ref_list);
@@ -253,7 +307,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int kinds = REF_LOCAL_BRANCH;
 	int i;
 
-	git_config(git_default_config);
+	git_config(git_branch_config);
 
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
-- 
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