Even better (IMHO!) is `git config branch.sort -committerdate` (note the `-`). This will sort newest committer date first.

I have this as an alias in my .zshrc!! Very handy

`git config --global branch.sort -committerdate`

Rebase an old branch and it suddenly looks recent again. The rewritten tip gets a fresh committer date.

FYI/fwiw Fish shell autocompletes branches sorted by last commit date when writing out git commands. It also provides completions for commitish objects grouped by class, giving precedence to the usual targets first, with each group sorted by its own sort key. Handy!

yep, i have a little helper in my zshrc for this sort of thing:

alias git-hot-refs="git branch --sort=committerdate | tail"

Huge fan of `git recent` [0] for this purpose.

[0] - https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent

Spoiler it’s fzf under the hood. But it’s perfect and simple.

I love this little fzf bash function that I wrote a few years ago: https://gist.github.com/thomasaarholt/141df779f3f16b641701b4...

It opens a fuzzy finder window showing the branches you have in the repo, sorted by recency. Also shows the latest committer and the date. Hit enter on the one you want to swap to it.

How many branches would you need to have to make this worthwhile?

At any time I'm working across 5-30 branches (some when I'm reviewing other folks' code) so it's handy to see my latest branches

I've seen monorepos with over 10k active branches. But even at a smaller scale (10-100 branches), it becomes useful when manually stacking and/or rebasing, especially if you have a smaller terminal.

At my current job it's fairly frequent that I have 5+ active branches open for a repo. Not ideal and that's another topic, but it is nice to be able to sort branches because of that.

I just click on tower and open it, much better

Or just have `jj log` custom-configured.

Another useful one if you have a large number of tags and want to see the most recently created ones first:

    git config --global tag.sort -creatordate

(`-creatordate` reverses the sort so that the newest come first.)