Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

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

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.

Sample Output

http://cl.ly/2t1U1s0K3G0n2A2W473u


psh:foursquare.web ryan$ 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
2011-09-21 15:14:09 -0400 6 weeks ago	i18n
2011-09-26 19:11:42 -0400 5 weeks ago	soybeans-js
2011-10-26 01:53:40 -0400 7 days ago	emails
2011-10-26 16:41:48 -0400 6 days ago	ms-rd
2011-10-27 14:29:30 +0000 6 days ago	master
2011-10-27 14:29:30 +0000 6 days ago	nl
2011-11-01 09:40:05 -0400 17 hours ago	snl
psh:foursquare.web ryan$

By: ryan

2011-11-02 06:16:22

echo sed bash git perl grep branches

8 Alternatives + Submit Alt

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. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
2009-06-03 12:21:35 +0900 3 hours ago	add_cool_functionality
2009-06-02 16:15:13 +0900 24 hours ago	remove_strange_bug
2009-06-02 16:12:20 +0900 24 hours ago	implement_observer
2009-06-02 14:42:58 +0900 25 hours ago	experiment_with_bobcat_feature
```
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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

brunost · 2009-06-03 08:25:00 341
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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

unixmonkey7740 · 2010-01-06 18:35:29 7
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

git for-each-ref --sort='-authordate' --format='%(refname)%09%(authordate)' refs/heads | sed -e 's-refs/heads/--'

ptitfred · 2012-09-25 09:05:09 9
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. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
master
testing
this-shit-works
```
0

for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'

dahuie · 2012-04-07 11:19:00 7
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.) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ git brd
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) master
2012-08-20 02:32:13 -0700 (6 weeks ago) feature-foo

$ git brd -r
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) origin/feature-foo
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) origin/master
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) origin/HEAD
```
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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"

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