Shows list of branches and their age.

branches_by_date.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Shows all remote branches and their age.
#
# Passing -n <name_of_commiter> shows only the branches last touched by that person.
# Passing -b <branch> shows only branches of that type (release, feature, experimental, etc)
# Passing -t <time> (day, week, month, year)
#
# Arguments can be combined.

git remote update origin --prune

showBranch() {
  for k in `git branch --list ${branch} -r | perl -pe 's/^..(.*?)( ->.*)?$/\1/'`; do
    echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%ci %Cblue%cr %Cred%aE %Creset" $k -- | head -n 1`\\t$k;
  done | sort -r | grep -e "$name" | grep "$time"
}

branch="origin/*"

while getopts n:b:t: option
do
 case "${option}" in
   n) name=${OPTARG};;
   b) branch="origin/"${OPTARG}"*";;
   t) time=${OPTARG};;
 esac
done

showBranch