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List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r
# Example output (resulting from running command on the Rails repo — https://github.com/rails/rails)
2012-02-12 03:20:24 -0800 9 hours ago origin/master
2012-02-10 10:34:35 -0800 2 days ago origin/3-2-stable
2012-01-31 09:56:12 -0800 12 days ago origin/3-1-stable
2012-01-24 11:18:06 -0800 3 weeks ago origin/3-0-stable
2011-12-31 05:09:14 -0800 6 weeks ago origin/2-3-stable
2011-11-25 09:49:54 +0000 3 months ago origin/serializers
2011-06-16 12:08:26 -0700 8 months ago origin/compressor
2011-05-24 16:03:41 -0700 9 months ago origin/sass-cleanup
2011-01-17 14:14:24 +1300 1 year, 1 month ago origin/2-1-stable
2011-01-17 14:13:56 +1300 1 year, 1 month ago origin/2-2-stable
2010-08-17 17:11:17 -0700 1 year, 6 months ago origin/deps_refactor
2010-05-16 22:23:44 +0200 1 year, 9 months ago origin/encoding
2009-09-10 17:41:18 -0700 2 years, 5 months ago origin/2-0-stable
2008-02-19 02:09:55 +0000 4 years ago origin/1-2-stable
@lichongchong
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太好了,谢谢你。
That's great. Thank you

@vishalbasra
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Thank you!

@vladdancer
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Thank you Jason!

@ZenoArrow
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ZenoArrow commented Feb 10, 2021

Put together a different variation based on a few examples: git branch -r --sort=-committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)|%(color:bold green)%(committerdate:relative)|%(color:blue)%(subject)|%(color:magenta)%(authorname)%(color:reset)' --color=always | column -ts'|'

Also, here's a version that works in Windows cmd and PowerShell (didn't find a good alternative for column command, but otherwise works fine): git branch -r --sort=-committerdate --format="%(HEAD)%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)|%(color:bold green)%(committerdate:relative)|%(color:blue)%(subject)|%(color:magenta)%(authorname)%(color:reset)" --color=always

@Aniket7250
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Is there any way to automate that extract last commit date without cloning it on local machine

@simon04
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simon04 commented Mar 24, 2021

Users of tig might want to use tig refs – This outputs all local/remote branches and tags with their timestamp.

@rameshpasham
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https://gist.github.com/Aniket7250 Am also looking for without cloning to get this functionality ..

@AngelGuante
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Thanks!

@waqaraz
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waqaraz commented Aug 11, 2021

Guys, I understand the commands that how can I list all remote/local branches along with when was it last commited, who made the last commit, last commit id, last commit message etc, sorted by committerdate .... but is there any way that I can list all branches that has their last commits within a date range ... just like we have --since and --until for git log ... for example, I want to list all branches that were being last commited before 6 months ago, or say, all branches that were last commited before "Jan 01 2021"

@vraravam
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but is there any way that I can list all branches that has their last commits within a date range ... just like we have --since and --until for git log ... for example, I want to list all branches that were being last commited before 6 months ago, or say, all branches that were last commited before "Jan 01 2021"

I would like the same if possible. But, thanks for the current version as well!

@ZenoArrow
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Guys, I understand the commands that how can I list all remote/local branches along with when was it last commited, who made the last commit, last commit id, last commit message etc, sorted by committerdate .... but is there any way that I can list all branches that has their last commits within a date range ... just like we have --since and --until for git log ... for example, I want to list all branches that were being last commited before 6 months ago, or say, all branches that were last commited before "Jan 01 2021"

Yes, it's possible. Here's some information on comparing dates in Bash scripts, you'd want to extract the dates from the git output line-by-line, convert them from text to a comparable date format, and compare against your target date to know whether to display them or not:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84381/how-to-compare-two-dates-in-a-shell

@ZenoArrow
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but is there any way that I can list all branches that has their last commits within a date range ... just like we have --since and --until for git log ... for example, I want to list all branches that were being last commited before 6 months ago, or say, all branches that were last commited before "Jan 01 2021"

I would like the same if possible. But, thanks for the current version as well!

See comment above.

@codisfy
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codisfy commented Aug 13, 2022

Thanks for this

@nvs2022
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nvs2022 commented Sep 19, 2022

thx man 👍

@rsanheim
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Another way to do this via gitconfig aliases:

rsanheim/dotfiles#34

@MohanSaiTeki
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You can use the command below if you want to filter the branches that were updated X - days ago.

git branch -r --format="%(committerdate:iso8601), %(committerdate:relative) - %(refname:short)" | grep -v [H]EAD | awk -v dateA="$(date -d "$(date +%Y-%m-%d) - 3 days" +%Y-%m-%d)" -F '|' 'dateA<=$1" "$2' | awk -F '/' '{ print $NF }'

From the above command replace the 3 days with your X no of days

@jmccay-work
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Here's my version of this.

# Credit https://gist.github.com/jasonrudolph/1810768
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;
	do printf "%-40s\\t%20s\\n" $branch "`git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1`"; 
done | sort -k 2

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