yphastos
2/12/2012 - 8:40 PM
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r# Example output (resulting from running command on the Rails repo — https://github.com/rails/rails)
2012-02-12 03:20:24 -0800 9 hours ago origin/master
2012-02-10 10:34:35 -0800 2 days ago origin/3-2-stable
2012-01-31 09:56:12 -0800 12 days ago origin/3-1-stable
2012-01-24 11:18:06 -0800 3 weeks ago origin/3-0-stable
2011-12-31 05:09:14 -0800 6 weeks ago origin/2-3-stable
2011-11-25 09:49:54 +0000 3 months ago origin/serializers
2011-06-16 12:08:26 -0700 8 months ago origin/compressor
2011-05-24 16:03:41 -0700 9 months ago origin/sass-cleanup
2011-01-17 14:14:24 +1300 1 year, 1 month ago origin/2-1-stable
2011-01-17 14:13:56 +1300 1 year, 1 month ago origin/2-2-stable
2010-08-17 17:11:17 -0700 1 year, 6 months ago origin/deps_refactor
2010-05-16 22:23:44 +0200 1 year, 9 months ago origin/encoding
2009-09-10 17:41:18 -0700 2 years, 5 months ago origin/2-0-stable
2008-02-19 02:09:55 +0000 4 years ago origin/1-2-stable