alt Hacker NewsI have been using something like this for 10+ years by this point - still wonder why it is not default or easier to do than a custom gitconfig/alias hack. :P
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fwip • today at 1:25 AM
> Just configure git branch to sort by the last commit date:
> git config branch.sort committerdate
> You can also supply this on a one-off basis as git branch --sort committerdate.
These don't seem like hacks to me. What do you have in mind?
Probably because most of the time you list branches you goal isn't to discover what exists, but to find the specific one you're looking for.