GIT-RECENT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

• git recent — browse and checkout recently used Git branches, bestie 💅 yup, this is the GIT-RECENT(1) page, and it's iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git recent

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so git recent gives you an interactive interface (using fzf) to browse your latest local git branches. It's giving branch history but make it cute.

It displays a list of branches sorted by recency, shows the unique commits for each branch, and lets you checkout a branch with Enter. You can also view the diff of a branch against the main/master branch. Obsessed? same.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --help — display a help message. That's the whole option list, no cap.

🎀 KEYBINDINGS 🎀

• Enter — checkout the selected branch. If the branch is already open in a separate git worktree, the script will output the path to jump there. (See README for automatic switching via a small shell wrapper.) main character energy fr fr.
• Up/Down arrow keys — navigate the branch list.
• Type — filter branch list with fuzzy text matching ✨.
• Ctrl+o (Ctrl-o) — show the diff of the selected branch against the main/master branch.
• Ctrl+C (Ctrl-C) — exit. bye bestie 💜

🌈 INSTALLATION 🌈

fzf is required. Literally the link: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/installation/

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• fzf(1)
• git(1)
• git-open(1)
• diff-so-fancy(1)
• delta(1)
• git-recent-og (for the non-fzf version)

mwah 💋 this page is from git-recent 2.0, dated February 8, 2025 — now go slay those branches, bestie 🎀🔥