git-recent-branches

gistfile1.php

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

## git-recent-branches: shows all branches, sorted by the most recently updated
## git-recent-branches Copyright 2009 Lachlan Donald <lachlan@ljd.cc>.

$verbose = in_array('-v',$argv);
$arg = in_array('-a',$argv) ? '-a' : '';
$branches = array();

// build list of branches
foreach(explode("\n",`git branch $arg -v`) as $branchline)
{
	if($tokens = array_filter(preg_split("/\s+/",trim($branchline,' *'),3)))
	{
		$tokens[] = trim(`git show --pretty=format:"%ct" $tokens[1] | head -n1`);
		$branches[] = $tokens;
	}
}

// sort by timestamp
usort($branches, create_function('$a,$b','return strcmp($b[3], $a[3]);'));

// print out
foreach($branches as $branch)
{
	if($verbose)
	{
		printf("  %-50s %s %s %s\n", $branch[0], $branch[1], date('Y-m-d', $branch[3]), $branch[2]);
	}
	else
	{
		printf("  %-50s\n", $branch[0]);
	}
}

// and llamas...