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Sort branches by last commit date

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Hacker News | Aug 25, 2026 | speckx

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August 24, 20269:55 AMI have too many git branches and like many people I developed a convoluted script to show me the most recent ones. Turns out with modern git it’s totally unnecessary. Just configure git branch to sort by the last commit date: You can also supply this on a one-off basis as git branch --sort committerdate.

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