List remote Git branches With the last commit date, commit user, Sort by most recent commit date

Find the last committed Date and Time in the current local branch :

$ git log -1 --format=%cd

>>>Sun Jun 14 05:03:27 2020 +0530

Find the last committed dates in current checkout local branches :

ASC

$ for k in `git branch | perl -pe s/^..//`; do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k -- | head -n 1`\\t$k; done | sort -r

>>>2020-06-14 05:03:27 +0530 3 weeks ago branch2

>>>2020-05-03 10:10:41 +0000 9 weeks ago master

DESC

$ for k in `git branch | sed s/^..//`; do echo -e `git log -1 --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k --`\\t"$k";done | sort

>>>2020-05-03 10:10:41 +0000 9 weeks ago master
>>>2020-06-14 05:03:27 +0530 3 weeks ago branch2


Using git branch -r, you can similarly show remote branches :

$ for k in `git branch -r | perl -pe 's/^..(.*?)( ->.*)?$/\1/'`; do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k -- | head -n 1`\\t$k; done | sort -r

>>>>

2020-06-14 07:17:02 +0000 3 weeks ago branch3

2020-06-14 05:03:27 +0530 3 weeks ago branch1

2020-06-12 04:27:18 +0530 4 weeks ago branch2

2020-06-11 22:23:58 +0530 4 weeks ago branch6

2020-05-29 04:31:13 +0000 6 weeks ago branch8

If you are also interested in the last author on the branch, and if you have the "column" tool available, you can use:

$ git for-each-ref --sort='-committerdate:iso8601' --format='%(committerdate:relative)|%(refname:short)|%(committername)' refs/remotes/ | column -s '|' -t 

>>>>

3 weeks ago   branch3                  Jayakody

3 weeks ago   branch1                  Sahan

4 weeks ago   branch2                  dilshan

4 weeks ago   branch6                  akna

5 weeks ago   branch8                  Sahan

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