.gitconfig aliases to give an overview of all branches in a repository.

.gitconfig

[alias]
    # branches: List recent branches sorted by date
    # ${COLUMNS} is the standard environment variable to use to get the terminal's width. Unfortunately
    # git sanitizes that away. git 2.31 will have a way to keep that variable. For now, extract it from
    # the environment via stty. The below adds 20 to that value to account for the overhead of ANSI
    # color sequences.
    branches = !git for-each-ref refs/heads \
        --color=always \
        --sort=-committerdate \
        --format='%(HEAD)%(color:bold blue)%(refname:short)|%(color:green)%(committerdate:relative)|%(color:blue)%(authorname)|%(color:reset)%(subject)' \
        | column -ts'|' \
        | bash -c '"cut -c1-$((20 + $(stty size -F /dev/stderr | cut -f2 -d\" \")))"'
    
    # fetch-all: retrieve all branch data from the remote. This can download a lot of data!
    fetch-all = "!f(){ git checkout --detach 2>/dev/null \
        && git fetch --tags origin '+refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*' \
        && git branches; }; f"