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Git shortcut to checkout recent branches

Michael Leimstädtner
September 23, 2021Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you have fzf Show archive.org snapshot installed, you may add an alias such as this to your ~/.bashrc:

alias recent-branch="git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/ |  fzf | sed 's/\* //g' | xargs -I '{}' git checkout {}"
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Now whenever you want to switch back and forth between your most recent branches, type recent-branch, select one and press enter.

Posted by Michael Leimstädtner to makandra dev (2021-09-23 13:17)