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1 Git:Branch Author List
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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6
7 == {doctitle}
8
9 Whether your team uses the long-running, topic, or any other multi-branch
10 https://git-scm.herokuapp.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branching-Workflows[branching
11 workflows], you usually end up with many server-side "abandonded" branches that
12 haven't been commited to in a while, especially when the team is relatively
13 agile. While a cluttered server-side branch set it isn't always a pressing
14 issue, the difficulty in cleanup can make it be a long-standing issue; one that
15 gets worse and worse as time goes by.
16
17 Enter, the *git-branch-authors.sh* script.
18
19 I wrote this script because my team has the problem I described above. To
20 preface the source code though, git doesn't track _who_ created a branch. It
21 just tracks at which commit reference the branch was forked from its parent,
22 which means we can't actually tell _who_ created a given branch. However, since
23 a branch is usually commited to by its creator, we can make an educated guess
24 by using the name of the person who commited most recently. At the very least,
25 the most recent author will give a point of contact to help find out
26 information about the branch.
27
28 ----
29 #!/usr/bin/env bash
30
31 # Verify we're inside a git repo
32 git status 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
33 if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
34 echo "Error: '$(pwd)' is not a epository."
35 exit 1
36 fi
37
38 # Set the column headers
39 out='Unix Timestamp~Branch~Timestamp~Commit~Author~Relative Time'
40
41 # Parse the branches
42 for i in $(git branch -r | grep -v HEAD); do
43 format="unix:%at~${i}~%ai~%h~%an <%ae>~commited %ar"
44 cmd=$(git show "${i}" --format="${format}" | head -n 1)
45 out=${out}'\n'${cmd}
46 done
47
48 # Output the goodness
49 echo -e ${out} | sort -r -n | column -s '~' -t
50
51 ----
52
53 To use this, simply save it to your *~/bin* directory (ensure your PATH
54 variable has \~/bin in it or that won't work) and +chmod \+x
55 ~/bin/git-branch-authors.sh+.
56
57 Category:Bash
58 Category:Scripts
59 Category:Git
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