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Jordan Brough
Jordan Brough

Reputation: 7175

How can I get a list of Git branches that I've recently checked out?

When moving between Git branches I sometimes forget the name of a branch I was recently on. How can I display a list of recently checked out branches/tags/commits in order of checkout?

Upvotes: 56

Views: 15274

Answers (3)

Daren Thomas
Daren Thomas

Reputation: 70314

Here's a powershell script I cobbled together based on the other answers here:

function gsh() {
  # git switch with history of recent branches
  $branch = & git reflog | Select-String -Pattern "moving from (\S+) to (\S+)" | %{ $_.Matches.Groups[1].Value } | Invoke-Fzf -NoSort
  if ($branch)
  {
    & git switch $branch
  }
}

It makes use of the awesome fzf fuzzy finder to allow interactive selection of the branch to switch to - including fuzzy-filtering of the branches! See PSFzf for details on how to get the Invoke-Fzf command.

Upvotes: 1

sorenoid
sorenoid

Reputation: 729

I have a similar one liner in my zshell , it takes an arg to specify how long the history should be, which defaults to 10.

alias bstack='f() { git reflog | grep checkout | cut -d " " -f 8 | uniq | head ${1} | cat -n };f'

for example, to list the last 3 branches

bstack -3


 1  my-current-branch
 2  my-previous-branch
 3  my-third-most-recent-branch

I derived a couple useful shortcuts from this

alias bjmp='fn() { bstack ${1} | tail -1 | cut -f 2 | xargs git checkout  }; fn'

allows me to specify from the numbers above which branch to check out

bjmp -3

will checkout "my-third-most-recent-branch"

alias b="bstack -1"
alias bpop="bjmp -2"

are also useful to see the current branch in a single keystroke (although this is not the easiest way to do this), and to just checkout the previous branch.

Upvotes: 5

Jordan Brough
Jordan Brough

Reputation: 7175

Summary:

You can use Git's reflog to show recent movements in order of checkout: git reflog

Script:

Here's a script you can download and use via git recent from inside any Git repository: https://gist.github.com/jordan-brough/48e2803c0ffa6dc2e0bd

Usage:

$ (master) git recent -n 5

1) master  4) deleted-branch
2) stable  5) improve-everything
3) fun
Choose a branch: 2

$ (stable) …

See the gist for more details/options.

Details:

Here's essentially what the script does to make the reflog output more usable:

$ git reflog | egrep -io "moving from ([^[:space:]]+)" | awk '{ print $3 }' | awk ' !x[$0]++' | egrep -v '^[a-f0-9]{40}$' | head -n5
master
stable
fix-stuff
some-cool-feature
feature/improve-everything

Upvotes: 87

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