Find out a Git branch creator

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I want to find out who created a branch   I am sort of able to do so with   git branch -a   xargs -L 1 bash -c  echo   1  git log --pretty format   H  an   1    1        However  this returns the last committer per branch  not necessarily the person who created the branch

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Adding to DarVar s answer   git for-each-ref --format    committerdate   09   authorname   09   refname     sort -k5n -k2M -k3n -k4n   awk   print  7  8     P S   We used AWK to pretty print the author and the remote branch

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We can find out based upon authorname  git for-each-ref --format    authorname   09   if   HEAD   then    else   refname short   end   09   creatordate   refs remotes  --sort authorname DESC

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You can find out who created a branch in your local repository by  git reflog --format full   Example output   commit e1dd940 Reflog  HEAD  0   a  lt a none gt   Reflog message  checkout  moving from master to b2 Author  b  lt b none gt  Commit  b  lt b none gt          But this is probably useless as typically on your local repository only you create branches   The information is stored at    git logs refs heads branch  Example content   0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 e1dd9409c4ba60c28ad9e7e8a4b4c5ed783ba69b a  lt a none gt  1438788420  0200   branch  Created from HEAD   The last commit in this example was from user  b  while the branch  b2  was created by user  a   If you change your username you can verify that git reflog takes the information from the log and does not use the local user   I don t know about any possibility to transmit that local log information to a central repository

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List remote Git branches by author sorted by committer date   git for-each-ref --format    committerdate   09   authorname   09   refname   --sort committerdate

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I know this is not entirely the scope of the question  but if you find the need to filter only commits by a specific author  you can always pipe to grep       lists all commits in chronological order that   belong to the github account with   username  MY GITHUB USERNAME   obviously you   would want to replace that with your github username    or the username you are trying to filter by    git for-each-ref --format    committerdate   09   authorname   09   refname     sort -committerdate   grep  MY GITHUB USERNAME    happy coding

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Assuming    branch was made from master hasn t been merged to master yet      git log --format   ae  an  master   lt HERE COMES THE BRANCH NAME gt    tail -1

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git for-each-ref --format    authorname   09 -  refname     sort

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for those looking for a DESC     this seems to work --sort -  ty for the formatting  new to this    my eyes are loosing some of it s bloodshot  git for-each-ref --format    color cyan   authordate format  m  d  Y  I  M  p       align 25 left   color yellow   authorname   end    color reset   refname strip 3   --sort -authordate refs remotes   further ref  https   stackoverflow com a 5188364 10643471

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A branch is nothing but a commit pointer  As such  it doesn t track metadata like  who created me   See for yourself  Try cat  git refs heads  lt branch gt  in your repository   That written  if you re really into tracking this information in your repository  check out branch descriptions  They allow you to attach arbitrary metadata to branches  locally at least   Also DarVar s answer below is a very clever way to get at this information

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I tweaked the previous answers by using the --sort flag and added some color formatting   git for-each-ref --format    color cyan   authordate format  m  d  Y  I  M  p       align 25 left   color yellow   authorname   end    color reset   refname strip 3   --sort authordate refs remotes

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As far as I know  you may see if you are the creator of a branch only  This is indicated by  the first row in  git ref heads  lt branch gt   If it ends with  Created from HEAD  you are the creator

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