On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 09:18:50AM -0600, Robert Dailey wrote:
> As you know, I can checkout the Nth checked out branch via this syntax:
>
> $ git checkout @{-N}
>
> Is there a built-in mechanism to get a listing of previously checked
> out refs? Basically, this would be similar to 'history' command in
> linux where instead of actual commands, it lists like this:
>
> HEAD@{-1}: master
> HEAD@{-2}: topic1
> HEAD@{-3}: 3f556e9 (detached)
>
> Seems like reflog should be able to do this, and maybe it can, but I'm
> not sure. Any tips? I'd be fine making a convenient alias for this if
> it ends up being a series of piped commands.
The "@{-N}" syntax works by reading the HEAD reflog backwards and
grepping for "checkout: moving from ...". The implementation is in
grab_nth_branch_switch.
You could do it yourself like:
git reflog HEAD |
perl -lne '/checkout: moving from (\S+) to/ and print $1'
That includes detached HEADs, too. If you want just "real" branaches,
you could possibly omit entries which match [0-9a-f]{40}. But that's
just a heuristic (you _could_ have a branch that matches that).
-Peff
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