mybranches

A (probably overengineered) program that allows you to interactively switch to a local branch matching a certain pattern. By default, this pattern is your username.

Why does this exist?

While working on projects with multiple collaborators, I'd often find myself repeating these steps when trying to find one of my branches:

• have a number of local branches
• run git mybranches (alias for git branch --list "<username>*")
• manually select + copy the name of the branch I'm looking for to the clipboard
• run git switch <branchname>

This automates that process.

Installation

Build from source

1. Clone this repository
2. Run make -B
3. Create symlink to directory on $PATH (use echo $PATH to check).
   • E.g., if /usr/local/bin is on your PATH:
   • ln -s ~/path/to/repo/bin/mybranches /usr/local/bin/mybranches

Usage

mybranches

Optional flags:

• --pattern: Specify a custom pattern. This gets passed to git branch --list <pattern>*. Defaults to your system username.
• --cleanup: Run the cleanup program. This will delete all local branches gone from remote.

Important

The "copy to clipboard" feature is currently only supported on macOS and Windows.