This really simple shell script from my friend, Robb Kidd, system administrator extraordinaire, shows git branches in order based on their most recent check-in date. You’d be surprised how useful this script is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a developer, you may be working on multiple bug fixes, plus longer-term development tasks, at the same time on a particular project. With git as your source code repository, it’s common for developers to work on each fix or task in a different branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But then you have to remember those branch names, and which branches you worked in most recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aging<\/em> script creates a simple “report” showing all branches, in order based on how recently changes have been checked in. It also shows who committed the most recent check-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s the script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that the code has been tidied up for display. The two indented lines after the “echo” line should actually be on the same line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The output looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012-07-10 16:37:34 -0400 0e3ac28 11 days ago (David Keener) remotes\/origin\/breadcrumbs_fix This really simple shell script from my friend, Robb Kidd, system administrator extraordinaire, shows git branches in order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91,190],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-git","tag-shell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}#!\/bin\/bash\n\ngit branch -a | grep -v HEAD | sed s\/^..\/\/ | while read branch; do\n echo `git log -1\n --pretty=format:\"%Cgreen%ci %Creset%h %Cblue%cr%Creset (%cn)\" $branch`\n $branch ; \ndone | sort\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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