I often use git diff --name-status BRANCH_NAME
to get the list of modified files. Is it possible to colorize the output of that command similar to the output of git status
– green for added files, blue for modified, red for deleted and so on.
It's not a duplicate of How to colorize output of git? since I want to colorize different part of the output and changes in config files proposed there are not applicable
Best Answer
I dont know of any official way to do it, but I wrote this just now and it works for me.
Put the bash script below into a file called:
color_git_diff.sh
(or whatever you want)to apply the script you would call it with:
Obviously you wouldnt want to call this everytime so you would need to put it into your
bashrc
and assign a function or an alias to it - or something like that.This only produces colorised output for modified or deleted files and I made modified files yellow - I dont know what the ansi escape code is for blue off the top of my head - I think maybe
\e[36m
? anyway if you want to use it you can add it yourself-