Git extension to list the most recent branches, in most-recent-commit order, with a human-friendly interval display.

git-rb.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# GIT-RBAGO
#
# For any given git repository, this script will print out the
# (default) ten _most recently worked on_ branches, along with a
# fairly human-readable version of how long ago that was.
#
# Example:
#
# $ git rbago
# develop        19 hours ago
# master         21 hours ago
#
# Requirements:
#     Python 3.6+
#     timeago (https://github.com/hustcc/timeago)

import re
import sys
import timeago
import datetime
import subprocess
from dateutil.parser import parse

count = 10
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    try:
        if sys.argv[1] == "-c":
            count = int(sys.argv[2], 10)
        else:
            raise
    except:
        print("Usage: git rb [-c count]")
        sys.exit(1)

GITCMD = ["git", "for-each-ref", "--sort=-committerdate", "--count={}".format(count),
          '--format=%(refname:short)\t%(committerdate:iso)',
          "refs/heads/"]

try:
    references = [i.decode("utf-8").strip().split("\t")
                  for i in subprocess.check_output(GITCMD).splitlines()]
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
    sys.exit(e.returncode)
    
maxname = max([len(i[0]) for i in references])
output = "{:" + str(maxname + 7) + "} {}"
now = datetime.datetime.now()

m_re = re.compile(r' -\d+\s*$')
def extract_date(i):
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(m_re.sub('', i), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

print("\n".join([
    output.format(i[0], timeago.format(extract_date(i[1]), now))
    for i in references]))

# COPYRIGHT:
# This program is copyrighted (c) 2018
#     Elf M. Sternberg (elf.sternberg@gmail.com)
#
# LICENSE: 
# https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
# 
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# this software enjoy the following rights and responsibilities:
# 
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