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See your latest local git branches, formatted real fancy

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2017-01-16 · latest 2026-08-30

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  1. Huge fan of `git recent` [0] for this purpose. [0] - https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent
    comment by metmac · 2026-08-30 · in Sort branches by last commit date
  2. …need when switching between branches) and allows to easily choose a branch to checkout to. [0] https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent
    comment by rpozarickij · 2026-02-20 · in I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
  3. If the target is a GitHub readme, then you can embed a video directly. eg https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent#readme That said, OP's SVG trick may be a smarter choice if the content is a terminal capture.
    comment by paulirish · 2025-07-08 · in SVGs that feel like GIFs
  4. Been using this snippet from Paul Irish for years: https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent
    comment by jilles · 2020-04-07 · in Git alias for printing recently-used branches
  5. I use a different version of git-recent that Paul Irish wrote ( https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent ) but thats pretty slick - thanks for sharing. Might have to switch - although sometimes its nice to also have the context.
    comment by netcraft · 2017-05-24 · in Little Things I Like to Do with Git
  6. agreed re: #7, heres another project I use that just does that: https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent
    comment by netcraft · 2017-01-16 · in Git-quick-stats – A simple and efficient way to access various statistics