GIT - How to find the latest git commit from all branches.

To find the latest git commit from all branches, you need to understand with some set of commands.

Command 1: List all remote branches.

 
git branch -r

Note: If you wants to find it from your local branches then don’t use ‘-r’, as ‘-r’ is used for remote branches. You can use ‘–remote’ instead of ‘-r’ as well.

Command 2: Select all branches except HEAD via using grep command.

git branch -r | grep -v HEAD

Note: We are using ‘-v’ for invert match, we can also use ‘–invert-match’ instead of ‘-v’.

Command 3: Show commit in format with date.

git show --format="%ci %cr" branch_name

Note: ‘%ci’ for committer date in ISO 8601 format ‘%cr’ for relative committer date

Command 4: sort the commits.

sort -r

Note: ‘-r’ used for reverse, we can use ‘–reverse’ insted of ‘-r’

Here is the complete one liner script to achieve it -

for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r | head -1

Goto your repository and run above script to get latest commit.

Thanks Kirti for asking such a good question.

Hope this helps