git-checkout-history

Store history of your previously checked out git branches and quickly go back to recent branches.

Here's an example of how it's used:

$ git branch
* master

$ git checkout-store -b new-feature
Switched to a new branch 'new-feature'

$ git checkout-store -b feature-to-code-review
Switched to a new branch 'feature-to-code-review'

$ git checkout-store master
Switched to branch 'master'

$ git checkout-history
[1] feature-to-code-review
[2] new-feature

$ git checkout-history 2
Switched to branch 'new-feature'

$ git checkout-history
[1] master
[2] feature-to-code-review
[3] new-feature

Branch history is stored in a file called ~/.git-checkout-history. This is a YAML file that contains a list of previously stored branches.

To make the tool easier to use, git aliases can be used:

$ git config --global alias.chs checkout-store
$ git config --global alias.ch checkout-history

$ git chs a-branch

Installation

Visit the releases page and download git-checkout-history and git-checkout-store for your platform. Put these binaries on your PATH and you should be able to run them using git.

Installing From Source

Run these commands to build git-checkout-history and git-checkout-store:

$ go get github.com/teddywing/git-checkout-history/...
$ go install github.com/teddywing/git-checkout-history/git-checkout-history
$ go install github.com/teddywing/git-checkout-history/git-checkout-store

Shell Completion

If you use bash or zsh completion for git, a patch file is included to add this functionality for git-checkout-store. The patch enables checkout-store to have the same completion functionality as checkout. It can be applied as usual:

$ patch path/to/git-completion.bash < path/to/git-completion.bash.patch

Known Issues

• History never gets cleared. Not sure if this is actually an issue, but personally I don't really care about branch history from before the current day.

License

Licensed under the MIT license. See the included LICENSE file.