I’m Luigi Teschio, a developer living in Naples. I work at Automattic, where I contribute to open source projects and the web ecosystem. I’m passionate about creativity, technology, and productivity, and I write about these topics on my personal website.

Git lb: how to get the last branches you have worked with

For work reasons, I have changed my laptop. I want share with you this git alias for get the recent branches. The name of this alias is git lb (last branch) and this is the output:

  31 minutes ago: fun-branch
  2 days ago: remove-things
  3 days ago: staging
  6 days ago: remove-bugs
  7 days ago: add-bugs
  7 days ago: master
  2 days ago: dev
  3 weeks ago: enhance_something
  3 weeks ago: hotfix-1
  4 weeks ago: undo-mess

To use this alias, add the following to your ~/.gitconfig:

lb = !git reflog show --pretty=format:'%gs ~ %gd' --date=relative | grep 'checkout:' | grep -oE '[^ ]+ ~ .*' | awk -F~ '!seen[$1]++' | head -n 10 | awk -F' ~ HEAD@{' '{printf(\"  \\033[33m%s: \\033[37m %s\\033[0m\\n\", substr($2, 1, length($2)-1), $1)}'

The alias was create by Scott Stafford and this is the link for more details about this alias.

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