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Add this to your .bashrc for easier git branch management. Use `b` to view your most recently modified 15 branches, in order of recency, with short hash, name, and commit message. Use `bco` for the same, but to additionally enter a number and checkout the corresponding branch.
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| branch_count=15 | |
| alias b="git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --count=$branch_count --format='%(objectname:short)\\%(refname:short)\\%(contents:subject)' | column -ts'\\'" | |
| function bco { | |
| # display recent branches | |
| b | cat -n; | |
| # read which the user wants to checkout | |
| echo -n "checkout branch number: "; | |
| read line; | |
| # validate input | |
| re='^[0-9]+$' | |
| if ! [[ $line =~ $re ]] ; then | |
| echo "error: Not a number"; | |
| return; | |
| fi | |
| if (($line < 1)) || (($line > $branch_count-1)) ; then | |
| echo "error: Out of bounds"; | |
| return; | |
| fi | |
| # figure out which this is and check it out | |
| branches=($(git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --count=$branch_count --format='%(refname:short)')); | |
| branch=${branches[line-1]}; | |
| git checkout $branch; | |
| } |
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Validation assumes >= 15 local branches. I'll fix this eventually.