A situation I often find myself is remembering what Git branch I was working a few hours ago. Partially this is my own fault, since I tend to name Git branches after task IDs, e.g. “12345″, in order to easily find them, but also just my brain has limited space and can’t remember more than three things at any one time.
A useful command I’ve found (for the Mac and probably Linux) is the following
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
This prints out a list of your branches, and the length of time since you last checked them out. It makes it really easy to find that unmemorable branch.
Of course, it’s easier if you put that command in a reusable function, e.g.
function listGitBranchesByMod() {
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
}
inside some *.sh file on your PATH.
I found this somewhere on the web, and cannot find it again. If it was you, please let me know so I can link to the original. Oh, and thanks!
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