Git Tip: Finding Recently Used Branches

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