Showing a list of git branches with their last commit date

Over time a git repository can end up with a lot of feature branches. Most of these are not much use once they’ve been merged into the main branch.

The following command shows a list of all local branch names, along with the date of their last commit:

git for-each-ref --sort=committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)'

Produces output like:

2015-10-12 feature-branch-name
2016-01-15 another-feature-branch
2016-03-16 one-last-feature-branch
2017-05-24 master