#GIT LIST BRANCHES BY CREATION DATE INSTALL#
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You probably already know this, but Git is different than some other version control systems like the popular 'Subversion', because every 'working copy' (in Subversion language) is a repository of it's own.

Something that can be a bit confusing for new users is that branches don't need to have a name (although in most circumstances you want one) and there is nothing particularly special about any particular branch (the master branch is just the default one that's created for you when you initialize a repository). I run this all the time.In Git, a branch is just an ordered list of commits (a.k.a.: checkins).

#GIT LIST BRANCHES BY CREATION DATE UPDATE#

The sync command will fetch from upstream and update local branches AND if it determines a branch is merged and its upstream branch was deleted, then it will be deleted automatically. One of my favorite commands to clean-up my branches does not come with git itself, but is bundled with the GitHub Hub CLI. Thankfully there is a -dry-run mode so you can preview what would happen if you were to run the command for real. The prune command will help you identify those and remove them.

Sometimes you have branches locally that are no longer tracked in GitHub or wherever. The following command will list out branches that have been already merged into the main branch (excluding the main branch itself) and then delete those locally git branch -merged main | grep -v 'main' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d Delete Branchĭepending on the type of branch you want to delete there are several ways to do it. You can find installation instructions from their README.md.

#GIT LIST BRANCHES BY CREATION DATE INSTALL#

NOTE: You'll need to install fzf for this alias to work. alias cb = 'git branch -sort=-committerdate | fzf -header Checkout | xargs git checkout' I also have a ~/.zshrc alias to list out my branches sorted by commit date and pipe those to fzf so that I can choose from a list the branch I'd like to checkout.

Use an alias to list recent branches and interactively choose one.

In addition to the above, I have two favorite ways of switching branchesīy passing - to git checkout it'll automatically switch you to the branch that you were previously in! git checkout. Either of the following do the exact same thing. You can switch branches with git checkout or with the new git switch commands. You can provide the -m flag giving the old name and the new name. Sometimes you need to rename a branch for one reason or another.

Use the new switch -c command with is simular to git checkout -b.

Create a branch and immediately check it out.

There are a couple of different ways you can create branches in git # List branches with their upstream and last commit message git branch -vv # List by branches that have not been merged git branch -no-merged # List by branches that have been merged into the main branch git branch -merged main # List branches sorted by most recent commit date git branch -sort =-committerdate # List local & remote branches git branch -a The commands start with git branch, but then you can provide addition flags to adjust or filter the data that gets displayed. There are many different ways to list git branches.

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Working on the command line with git can be a bit overwhelming, so I'm starting a series of git cheatsheet posts for various areas.

Git list branches by creation date