Find out a Git branch creator

Question

I want to find out who created a branch.

I am sort of able to do so with:

git branch -a | xargs -L 1 bash -c \'echo \"$1 `git log --pretty=format:\"%         


        

Answer 1

I know this is not entirely the scope of the question, but if you find the need to filter only commits by a specific author, you can always pipe to grep :)

# lists all commits in chronological order that
# belong to the github account with
# username `MY_GITHUB_USERNAME` (obviously you
# would want to replace that with your github username,
# or the username you are trying to filter by)


git for-each-ref --format='%(committerdate) %09 %(authorname) %09 %(refname)' | sort -committerdate | grep 'MY_GITHUB_USERNAME'

happy coding! :)