On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:52:06PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> I'm sure the git developers grow tired of working with addle-brained
> users, but I sometimes forget what the contents of a topic branch are,
> how old it is, etc. As to content, I can make better branch names,
> but I think it would be useful to be able to query git as to the
> creation time of all of my branches, perhaps sorted from newest to
> oldest.
I'm not sure you can always accurately get that information. If you have
reflogs turned on, you can look at the oldest reflog for the that ref;
however, the reflog may have been pruned. You can also try looking at
the commit graph, but then you need a reference branch ("when did I
branch from master"), and even that's not entirely useful. You have to
look at the latest merge-base, but that tells you the last time you
merged with master, not necessarily the first time.
That being said, something like this should work:
-- >8 --
#!/bin/sh
branch_date() {
git-rev-list -g --pretty=format:'%ct %cd' $1 | tail -n 1
}
git-show-ref --heads |
while read sha1 branch; do
echo "$branch `branch_date $branch`"
done |
sort -k 2nr |
while read branch timestamp date; do
printf '%20s %s\n' ${branch#refs/heads/} "$date"
done
-- >8 --
Unfortunately, there is a bug in git-rev-list; I've just posted a patch, but
the one-liner fix is:
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 718e568..a92958c 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static void fill_person(struct interp *table, const char *msg, int len)
if (msg + start == ep)
return;
- table[5].value = xstrndup(msg + start, ep - msg + start);
+ table[5].value = xstrndup(msg + start, ep - (msg + start));
/* parse tz */
for (start = ep - msg + 1; start < len && isspace(msg[start]); start++)
With that fix, the script above should hopefully produce what you want.
-Peff
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