Speedily browse your latest local git branches, checkout with Enter. Also view branches unique commits, and optionally the diff against main.
git-recent-2-0-demo.webm
git recent now offers an interactive UI (thx to fzf) for browsing recent branches, seeing differences, and checkout'ing your selection.
See a diff of your branch vs main with ctrl-o. If you have delta it'll use that for formatting, but will fallback, too.
If you're like me, mostly using classic git commands, then git recent provides a nice upgrade for browsing/selecting recent branches. But if you're a TUI fan using git-fuzzy, lazygit or tig or fzf-git, well… this probably isn't an upgrade. :p (But you can certainly read the source quickly!)
fzf is required for 2.0. TBH, it's a fantastic tool; those shell key bindings are delightful. That said, if you're dependency-averse, the older version below, git recent-og, may be for you.
- Mac:
brew install fzf - Linux:
sudo apt-get install fzf - Windows:
choco install fzf
Then, do one of these:
- Manual: Grab the
git-recentscript from this repo and put it anywhere in your$PATH. Runchmod +x git-recent. - Via NPM:
npm install --global git-recent Homebrew:(Coming soon! Updated for 2.0)brew install git-recent
git recent
Hit Enter to checkout the selected branch.
Type or use arrow keys to navigate your list of branches.
Hit ctrl-o to see the branch diff.
git recent-og is the OG git recent, released back in 2016. Now it's been renamed to git recent-og.
git recent-og
Optionally, add -n<int> to see the most recent <n> branches
git recent-og -n5
If you're a Windows user, you need to use Git Bash or similar shell in order to effectively use this utility.
You can download/clone and add the git-recent directory to your path (e.g. add the directory to your PATH environment
or copy git-recent-og script into an existing included path like /usr/local/bin or ~/bin/).
You can use also npm to install the global binary:
npm install --global git-recent
On Mac, you can install with homebrew:
brew install git-recent
git open- Open the repo website in your browserdiff-so-fancy- Making the output ofgit diffso fancy
Copyright Paul Irish. Licensed under MIT.
- 2025-02 - 2.0 upgrade with fzf integration. 1.0 binary is now available as
git recent-og. - 2019-06 - Last bugfix for 1.0 landed. Been stable since then.
- 2018-10 - Added count
-nparameter - 2016-08 - released in standalone repo and published to npm
- 2016-05 - added to paulirish/dotfiles