Prettify the display of your git branches. Also includes the last commit date/time and the branch's description.
If, like me, you have many branches, some of which become long-lived, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to annotate branches with a short description so you know what the branch is for. The problem is, git branch --list does not show anything other than the branch's name.
Add a description to a branch using git branch --edit-description
If you add the following code to your .bashrc, this functionality will replace the existing default git branch functionality:
git() { if [[ $# -eq 1 && $1 == "branch" ]]; then command ~/br.sh; else command git "$@"; fi; }Issuing the git branch command will subsequently produce output similar to the following:
Branch name Last commit ▾ Description
staging | 2015-05-07 13:16 | Only merge upstream!
devel | 2015-05-07 13:15 | Here be dragons
GCD-238_FixTheThingThatDoesntDoTheThing | 2015-05-06 04:29 | The thing that doesn't do what it should needs some attention
GCD-318_CriticalBugfixForDivInWrongPlace | 2015-05-05 11:01 | We need to move that div half a pixel to the left
* GCD-329_BrandNewHugeEnormousFeature | 2015-05-04 21:45 | Big-Ass Huge Feature™
master | 2015-03-12 13:03 | Only 100% bug-free goodness
This project is based on/inspired by this GitHub project which I found through this post.