prints the recent heads from a remote

git-recent

#!/bin/bash
# git-recent: prints the recent heads from a remote
#
# Usage:
# 
# git recent              # recent branches in this repo
# git recent remote_name  # recent branches in remote_name
#
# git-recent was written by Paul Ivanov. Please send improvements to @ivanov on
# GitHub/Twitter, or find my email address.
#
RED="\033[0;31m"
NO_COLOR="\033[0m"
if [ "$#" = "0" ]; then
    echo -e \ `git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads --format="%(committerdate:short) %(authorname)  $RED %(refname:short) $NO_COLOR \n"` | head
else
    echo -e \ `git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/remotes/$1 --format="%(committerdate:short) %(authorname)  $RED %(refname:short) $NO_COLOR \n"` | head
fi