Since Git v2.7.0 it has been possible to sort branches by the timestamp of the last commit. This comes in handy when working on projects with similarly named feature branches.

$ git branch -a --sort="committerdate"
  feature-42
  feature-92
  feature-142
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/release-0.74.3
  remotes/origin/stable
  remotes/origin/release-0.74.2
  remotes/origin/release-0.74.1
  remotes/origin/release-0.74.0
  remotes/origin/jsbuild
  remotes/origin/openapi
  remotes/origin/release-0.69.1
  remotes/origin/release-0.69.0
  release-0.67.0
  remotes/origin/release-0.67.0
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