Re: help with git query

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 14, 2009, 05:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20090414054654.GC19027@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <d77df1110904131331p24f52220o74c401c97fbb904d@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:31:49PM -0500, Nathan W. Panike wrote:

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> > 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).

-Peff