How do I get the list of branches not merged into master, ordered by most recent commit?

Question

For our buildbot, I want to display the most recently-updated active (non-released) branches. Let\'s say I have a master branch, as well as the following, from

Answer 1

Can't you just grep out branch2?

Basically, something like:

for branch in `git branch -r --no-merged origin/master`; do git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)' --count=15 refs/remotes/origin/ | grep $branch; done;

That worked for me given your sample output.