Add this to your git config (found via some stackoverflow, and beaten till it worked)

.gitconfig

[alias]
    recent = "!r() { \
            git for-each-ref --color=always --sort=-committerdate refs/heads --format='%(HEAD)%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)|%(color:bold green)%(committerdate:relative)|%(color:blue)%(subject)|%(color:magenta)%(authorname)%(color:reset)' \
                | column -ts'|' \
                | cut -c -$(tput cols) \
                 ;}; r"