Show List Of Most Recently Committed Branches

The standard way to list your branches is with the git branch command. If you use branches extensively for feature work and bug fixes, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the list of branches trying to visually parse through them for the one that you had worked on recently.

With the git for-each-ref command, we can produce a better list of branches.

$ git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count=10 --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/

The command itself will iterate over all of the repository's refs and print them out as a list. The --sort=-committerdate option will ensure that list is sorted by refs mostly recently committed to. The --count=10 option limits the list output to 10 refs. The format flag cleans up the output a bit, only showing the shortname of the ref. Lastly, the refs/heads/ argument ensures that only local refs are included in the output, thus ignoring remote refs.

The result is a list of local branches ordered by recency which generally corresponds to relevance.

See man git-for-each-ref for more details.

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