Show List Of Most Recently Committed Branches
The standard way to list your branches is with the git branch command. If
you use branches extensively for feature work and bug fixes, you may find
yourself overwhelmed by the list of branches trying to visually parse
through them for the one that you had worked on recently.
With the git for-each-ref command, we can produce a better list of
branches.
$ git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count=10 --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/
The command itself will iterate over all of the repository's refs and print
them out as a list. The --sort=-committerdate option will ensure that list
is sorted by refs mostly recently committed to. The --count=10 option
limits the list output to 10 refs. The format flag cleans up the output a
bit, only showing the shortname of the ref. Lastly, the refs/heads/
argument ensures that only local refs are included in the output, thus
ignoring remote refs.
The result is a list of local branches ordered by recency which generally corresponds to relevance.
See man git-for-each-ref for more details.