git branches - lists local and remote branches sorted by date

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Prints local branches and remote branches prefixed with your git email
# username sorted by date.
set -o errexit
set -o nounset

USER_NAME=`git config user.email | sed s:\@.*::`
TAN="\033[33m"
NO_COLOR="\033[0m"

# First argument will be printed to the header
# Second argument is assumed to be the prefix of the refs to print
# Last argument is the part of the prefix that will be stripped from the output
function listBranches {
  echo -e "$TAN""$1:$NO_COLOR"
  git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate \
    --format='date="%(committerdate)"; name="%(refname)"' $2 | sed s:$3:: | \
  while read entry
  do
    # Eval the line git printed out to read the variables into the environment
    # variables so we can use printf to format better.
    eval "$entry"
    # Print out the name, followed by the appropriate number of spaces to
    # put the date right aligned.
    printf "%s %*s\n" $name "$(( $(tput cols) - ${#name} - 1 ))" "$date"
  done
}

listBranches "Local branches" refs/heads/ refs/heads/
echo ""
listBranches "Remote branches for $USER_NAME" refs/remotes/origin/$USER_NAME* refs/remotes/origin/