Set color bash prompt according to git/svn branch, and return status of last command.

git_svn_bash_prompt.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Set the bash prompt according to:
#    * the branch/status of the current git repository
#    * the branch of the current subversion repository
#    * the return value of the previous command
# 
# USAGE:
#
#   1. Save this file as ~/.git_svn_bash_prompt
#   2. Add the following line to the end of your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile:
#        . ~/.git_svn_bash_prompt
#
# AUTHOR:
# 
#   Scott Woods <[email protected]>
#   West Arete Computing
#
#   Based on work by halbtuerke and lakiolen.
#
#   http://gist.github.com/31967


# The various escape codes that we can use to color our prompt.
        RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
     YELLOW="\[\033[0;33m\]"
      GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
       BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
  LIGHT_RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
      WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"
 LIGHT_GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
 COLOR_NONE="\[\e[0m\]"

# Detect whether the current directory is a git repository.
function is_git_repository {
  git branch > /dev/null 2>&1
}

# Detect whether the current directory is a subversion repository.
function is_svn_repository {
  test -d .svn
}

# Determine the branch/state information for this git repository.
function set_git_branch {
  # Capture the output of the "git status" command.
  git_status="$(git status 2> /dev/null)"

  # Set color based on clean/staged/dirty.
  if [[ ${git_status} =~ "working directory clean" ]]; then
    state="${GREEN}"
  elif [[ ${git_status} =~ "Changes to be committed" ]]; then
    state="${YELLOW}"
  else
    state="${RED}"
  fi
  
  # Set arrow icon based on status against remote.
  remote_pattern="# Your branch is (.*) of"
  if [[ ${git_status} =~ ${remote_pattern} ]]; then
    if [[ ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} == "ahead" ]]; then
      remote="↑"
    else
      remote="↓"
    fi
  else
    remote=""
  fi
  diverge_pattern="# Your branch and (.*) have diverged"
  if [[ ${git_status} =~ ${diverge_pattern} ]]; then
    remote="↕"
  fi
  
  # Get the name of the branch.
  branch_pattern="^# On branch ([^${IFS}]*)"    
  if [[ ${git_status} =~ ${branch_pattern} ]]; then
    branch=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
  fi

  # Set the final branch string.
  BRANCH="${state}(${branch})${remote}${COLOR_NONE} "
}

# Determine the branch information for this subversion repository. No support
# for svn status, since that needs to hit the remote repository.
function set_svn_branch {
  # Capture the output of the "git status" command.
  svn_info="$(svn info | egrep '^URL: ' 2> /dev/null)"

  # Get the name of the branch.
  branch_pattern="^URL: .*/(branches|tags)/([^/]+)"
  trunk_pattern="^URL: .*/trunk(/.*)?$"
  if [[ ${svn_info} =~ $branch_pattern ]]; then
    branch=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
  elif [[ ${svn_info} =~ $trunk_pattern ]]; then
    branch='trunk'
  fi

  # Set the final branch string.
  BRANCH="(${branch}) "
}

# Return the prompt symbol to use, colorized based on the return value of the
# previous command.
function set_prompt_symbol () {
  if test $1 -eq 0 ; then
      PROMPT_SYMBOL="\$"
  else
      PROMPT_SYMBOL="${RED}\$${COLOR_NONE}"
  fi
}

# Set the full bash prompt.
function set_bash_prompt () {
  # Set the PROMPT_SYMBOL variable. We do this first so we don't lose the 
  # return value of the last command.
  set_prompt_symbol $?

  # Set the BRANCH variable.
  if is_git_repository ; then
    set_git_branch
  elif is_svn_repository ; then
    set_svn_branch
  else
    BRANCH=''
  fi
  
  # Set the bash prompt variable.
  PS1="\u@\h \w ${BRANCH}${PROMPT_SYMBOL} "
}

# Tell bash to execute this function just before displaying its prompt.
PROMPT_COMMAND=set_bash_prompt

Good stuff. One remark is to place LANG=en in line #50 for more compatibility like this:

git_status="$(LANG=en git status 2> /dev/null)"

Because, if user have local version of git (for me it's russian), it returns localized output that doesn't recognized by subsecquent conditions

This is a nice share, thanks!

I had to change line 84 to use (git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) to get the branch name to display, using git version 1.9.1:

BRANCH="${state}$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)${remote}${COLOR_NONE} "

Just a heads up, Git 2.0 breaks this. Easily fixed while maintaining backwards compatability by removing the '# ' from the regex.

I seen on systems that have localized output message, this line could fail return empty string:

branch_pattern="^(# )?On branch ([^${IFS}]*)"


so possible fix for this issue could be:

branch_pattern="^(# )?[a-zA-Z]+ branch ([^${IFS}]*)"


Well I tried many things that you guys said, but the easier one is to change the line 80:
branch=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
to
branch=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}

Working version of this here (added Virtualenv and Conda support also)...
https://github.com/spindi/setup/blob/master/bash/prompt.sh