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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Terminal - Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
for k in `git branch|perl -pe s/^..//`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k|head -n 1`\\t$k;done|sort -r
2009-06-03 08:25:00
User: brunost
Functions: echo head perl sort
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Print out list of all branches with last commit date to the branch, including relative time since commit and color coding.

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for k in `git branch|sed s/^..//`;do echo -e `git log -1 --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" "$k"`\\t"$k";done|sort
2010-01-06 18:35:29
User: unixmonkey7740
Functions: echo sed
Tags: bash git
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
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for k in `git branch|sed s/^..//`;do echo -e `git log -1 --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" "$k" --`\\t"$k";done|sort
2011-11-02 06:16:22
User: ryan
Functions: echo sed
Tags: bash git perl grep branches
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

This fixes a bug found in the other scripts which fail when a branch has the same name as a file or directory in the current directory.

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for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'
2012-04-07 11:19:00
User: dahuie
Functions: awk echo sed sort
Tags: bash git sed awk
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes.

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git for-each-ref --sort='-authordate' --format='%(refname)%09%(authordate)' refs/heads | sed -e 's-refs/heads/--'
2012-09-25 09:05:09
User: ptitfred
Functions: sed
Tags: bash git sed
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
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brd = "! f() { for k in $(git branch $@ | sed 's/^..//; s/ .*//'); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty='%Cgreen%ci %Cblue(%cr)%Creset ' $k) $k" ; done | sort -r; }; f"
2012-09-28 10:20:51
User: michael_n_1138
Tags: bash git perl alias grep branches
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Add this line to your ~/.gitconfig for a git alias "git brd" (i.e., brd = (br)anch+(d)ate) which sorts branches by date. Allows you to pass in limited "git branch" options such as "-r" (remote) or "-a" (all). (Note: forum added "$" prefix to command; obviously in gitconfig there is no "$" prefix.)

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Is there a good way to add that to the git alias?

Comment by youthenme 160 weeks and 6 days ago

You can't add it as a git alias because it's using a bash for loop to run the command several times. What you can do is add a script at /usr/local/bin/git-branch-dates containing:

#!/bin/bash

for k in `git branch|perl -pe s/^..//`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k|head -n 1`\\t$k;done|sort -r

Git automatically searches through any bash scripts on your path that start with git- so you can now run:

git branch-dates

and the script will be run.

Comment by unixmonkey36469 49 weeks and 3 days ago

Of course you can add it as a git alias!

A git alias which is

"!f() { ...bash script here...; }; f"

works just fine. So, if you add an alias which says

brel = "!f() { for k in `git branch|perl -pe s/^..//`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:'%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset' $k|head -n 1` \\\t$k; done | sort -r; }; f"

git brel

will do the proper thing.

Of course, the single command

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%1B[32m%(committerdate:iso8601) %1B[34m%(committerdate:relative) %1B[0;m%(refname:short)' refs/heads/

is easier to alias :)

Comment by mstormo 10 weeks and 3 days ago

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