Hello,
Martin Geisler <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Does Magit have an option to sort branch names by the order they have
> been used?
No, not that I'm aware of.
>
> I'm using magit-ido-completing-read and as far as I can tell, the
> order of the branches is alphabetically. That is normally not such a
> big problem since typing a few characters narrows the list down.
> However, I recently started having both a "release-2.0" and a
> "release-2.1" branch in my repository -- and now find myself
> repeatedly typing "rel21" to pick the right one :-)
>
> Any hints on how to have the completion function order the branches in
> a smarter way?
Does sorting by the committer date get you the behavior you want?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/lisp/magit-git.el b/lisp/magit-git.el
index af9134c..7af3975 100644
--- a/lisp/magit-git.el
+++ b/lisp/magit-git.el
@@ -1012,6 +1012,7 @@ (defun magit-list-unmerged-to-upstream-branches ()
(defun magit-list-refnames (&rest args)
(magit-git-lines "for-each-ref" "--format=%(refname:short)"
+ "--sort=-committerdate"
(or args magit-list-refs-namespaces)))
(defun magit-list-branch-names ()
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
If so, you could create a feature request for this to be added as an
option.
--
Kyle
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