Listing each branch and its last revision's date in Git

Question

I need to delete old and unmaintained branches from our remote repository. I\'m trying to find a way with which to list the remote branches by their last modified date, and

Answer 1

Here's a function you can add to your bash_profile to make this easier.

Usage when in a Git repository:

• branch prints all local branches
• branch -r prints all remote branches

Function:

branch() {
   local pattern="s/^..//"
   local arg=""
   if [[ $@ == "-r" ]]; then
      pattern="s/^..(.*?)( ->.*)?$/\1/"
      arg=" -r "
      echo '-r provided'
   fi
   for k in $(git branch $arg | perl -pe "$pattern"); do
      echo -e $(git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k -- | head -n 1)\\t$k
   done | sort -r
}