How can I know what was the latest changes made to a branch?

git version 1.7.4.4

I am working on a new project from my development team.

So I have just cloned the project. The project has 5 branches.

I need to know what branch was the latest changes made to. So I can start working on that branch, as that would have the latest changes.

I have looked at the log. However, but that doesn't tell me that branches those commits where made to.

Many thanks for any 开发者_StackOverflow中文版suggestions,

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A git log --decorate would add tags and branches to each line.

--decorate[=short|full|no]

Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown.
If short is specified, the ref name prefixes refs/heads/, refs/tags/ and refs/remotes/ will not be printed.
If full is specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
The default option is short.

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You can use git for-each-ref to get a list of branches ordered by the date of the last commit on those branches, for instance:

git fetch origin # Update all your remote tracking branches from origin

git for-each-ref --sort=committerdate refs/remotes/origin/

The branches listed at the end have the most recent commits at their tip. (For a script that produces the relevant dates as well as the branch name you could look here.)