Normally when you run git branch on a repository, you get your list of branches in alphabetical order, which can be very annoying if you have a lot of them (unless you have a very rigid naming system by ticket number or something).
You can change that now!
In your repo, if you do:
git branch --sort=-committerdate
This will sort all of your branches by the date of their last commit!
You can sort by:
authordatecommitterdatecreatordateobjectsizetaggerdate
Plus, you can also do this globally if you want to always do it by one of these, like so:
git config --global branch.sort -committerdate
Or, you could set an alias:
git config --global alias.brcd "branch --sort=-committerdate"
Now go on and git committing!
Top comments (4)
Nice and short -- love these types of useful articles.
Great tip!
awesome!
So short