Do you want to get onto your recent branchies easy? Here - ya - go. Create a new file named whatever you want, make it executable and put it in your path. From there go to your favorite project that you are working on type in whatever you named the script, and you are off to the races.

gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby


trap("INT") { puts "\ncatch'ya later"; exit 0 }

output   = `git for-each-ref --count=10 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(refname:short)'`
branches = output.split("\n")

unless option = ARGV[0]
  puts <<-MSG

    You can use the number to the left of the branch name or
    an ignorant best match guess can be made to select the branch
    string that you type in.

  MSG
  branches.each_with_index do |branch, index|
    puts "#{index}) #{branch}"
  end

  print "\n> "
  option = gets.strip
end

if option =~ /^\d+$/
  `git checkout #{branches[option.to_i]}`
else
  closest_matches = branches.select{|branch| branch.downcase.include? option.downcase }
  if closest_matches.size > 0
    `git checkout #{closest_matches.first}`
  else
    puts "Did not find a branch name that included #{option.downcase}"
  end
end