git-recent [-s] [-A] [N]

git-recent Shows N (default to 10) "unique recent branches" the user has moved to/from, from the most recently moved to to the least recently moved to, in the format:

BRANCH_NAME [whitespace] SOURCE

... whereby SOURCE is whence the branch came from: from the reflog, or from the list of all local branches. Use -S if you don't want the SOURCE to be shown.

You can use N=0 (i.e. git recent 0) to not restrict the output, and have it show all branches in order:

• Branches and SHAs from the reflog, from most recently to least recently checked out.

• All other local branches

Use the -s option to skip showing (plausible) SHAs which were checked out, and only show actual branches.

This will not work the way you expect if you named a branch using the same set of characters (hex, a-f0-9) and the same length (40) that a SHA has.

Use the -A option to NOT show branches from the local branch list, and only show branches from the reflog.

How to use

Useful as a Git alias in ~/.gitconfig, used in conjunction with fzf. cor here stands for "check out recent":

[alias]
  cor          = !git checkout $( git recent 0 -s | fzf +s | awk '{ print $1 }' )
  corsha       = !git checkout $( git recent 0    | fzf +s | awk '{ print $1 }' )

Author

Marco Fontani - [email protected]

License

Copyright 2018 Marco Fontani [email protected]

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