git-recent - Quickly check out your favorite branches

Do you often find yourself switching between a handful of branches? If it's more than 2 branches, git checkout - won't cut it. Give these typing fingers a rest with git-recent.

Running git recent shows a nice menu with the 5 recently checked-out branches, and lets you check them out in 2 keystrokes.

Installation

Copy-paste this line to Bash and run:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cool-RR/git-recent/master/git-recent -o ~/bin/git-recent && chmod +x ~/bin/git-recent

Give git recent a test run to make sure you did it right.

Manual installation

Copy the git-recent file above to ~/bin/ or anywhere that's on your path, chmod it to be executable, and give git recent a test run to make sure you did it right.

Alias

I like to use git rc as a shorter alias to git recent. This command would add that alias:

$ git config --global alias.rc recent

Shameless plug

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I'm thinking mostly of Berlin or Munich, but anywhere in the EU could work.

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Ram Rachum and collaborators, released under the MIT license.