The small shell script to show git branches in recently-used order.

git-latest-branches

#!/bin/sh -e

function show_latest_branches () {
    git branch | \
        sed  's/[* ]//g; s/.*/printf "& "; git show --format="%at" -s &/'| \
        sh | \
        sort -k2nr
}


case "$1" in
    -v) # verbose; 
        show_latest_branches
        ;;
    *) 
        show_latest_branches | cut -d ' ' -f 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0