Re: help with git query

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2009.04.14 01:46:54 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:31:49PM -0500, Nathan W. Panike wrote:
> 
> > > for each branch:
> > >  - info about the latest commit on that branch (date and time, message, etc.)
> > 
> > Depending on what you want to do---from a bash shell, you could do:
> > 
> > for i in $(git branch -a | cut -b3-); do echo $i; git show -s $i; echo; done
> 
> Ick, please use the plumbing designed for this exact thing instead of
> trying to parse "git branch":
> 
>   $ git for-each-ref --format='%(subject)
>     %(authorname) %(authoremail)
>     %(authordate)' refs/heads/
> 
> or however you want to format it. See "git help for-each-ref" for a list
> of fields (you can also just pipe the output of for-each-ref into a
> shell loop, as in your example, but with the format options there is
> often no need).

git log --no-walk --branches --decorate --pretty=short

is what I use, sometimes. Some other "pretty" format might be more
suitable for your use case.

Björn