You could write a shell function that takes a string as an argument and inserts the appropriate color codes based on string substitution, and then just pass the results of __git_ps1 to that function. Something like the following might work: function __my_git_colorize_ps1 () { echo "$1" | while read -N 1 char; do case "$char" in \*) echo -n $'\e[34m*\e[m';; +) echo -n $'\e[31m+\e[m';; $) echo -n $'\e[32m$\e[m';; %) echo -n $'\e[1;34m%\e[m';; \<|\>) echo -n $'\e[31m'"$char"$'\e[m';; *) echo -n "$char";; esac done } -Kevin Ballard On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Sebastien Douche wrote: > Hi, > the prompt (git-completion.bash) bundled with git is the most > "advanced" I found on the web. But I would add colors for "status". > Example show: * (unstaged) in blue, + (staged in red), $ (stashed) in > green, % (untracked) in bold blue and < > <> (upstream indicator) in > red. > > How make this? > > Cheers > > -- > Sebastien Douche <sdouche@xxxxxxxxx> > Twitter: http://bit.ly/afkrK (agile, lean, python, git, open source) > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html