Sort branches by last commit date

(ryangreenberg.com)

29 points | by speckx 5 days ago

7 comments

  • metmac 4 minutes ago
    Huge fan of `git recent` [0] for this purpose.

    [0] - https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent

    • metmac 3 minutes ago
      Spoiler it’s fzf under the hood. But it’s perfect and simple.
  • tomtom1337 7 minutes ago
    I love this little fzf bash function that I wrote a few years ago: https://gist.github.com/thomasaarholt/141df779f3f16b641701b4...

    It opens a fuzzy finder window showing the branches you have in the repo, sorted by recency. Also shows the latest committer and the date. Hit enter on the one you want to swap to it.

  • ComputerGuru 22 minutes ago
    FYI/fwiw Fish shell autocompletes branches sorted by last commit date when writing out git commands. It also provides completions for commitish objects grouped by class, giving precedence to the usual targets first, with each group sorted by its own sort key. Handy!
  • asb 1 hour ago
    Even better (IMHO!) is `git config branch.sort -committerdate` (note the `-`). This will sort newest committer date first.
    • pkaodev 1 hour ago
      I have this as an alias in my .zshrc!! Very handy
  • monster_truck 11 minutes ago
    I just click on tower and open it, much better
  • zahlman 16 minutes ago
    How many branches would you need to have to make this worthwhile?
    • woodruffw 7 minutes ago
      I've seen monorepos with over 10k active branches. But even at a smaller scale (10-100 branches), it becomes useful when manually stacking and/or rebasing, especially if you have a smaller terminal.
    • jamietanna 15 minutes ago
      At any time I'm working across 5-30 branches (some when I'm reviewing other folks' code) so it's handy to see my latest branches
  • bewareofscams 1 hour ago
    Or just have `jj log` custom-configured.