Sort Git Branches by Latest Commit

Some of my repos have a lot of branches, and a command I discovered this week sorts them by the most recent committer date:

$ git branch --sort=-committerdate
* new-branch
  not-so-new-branch
  super-old-branch

The - reverses the order, putting the most-recently updated branch at the top, rather than the bottom, of my output. That's more intuitive to me, but it certainly works in reverse.

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