Fancy navigation through git branches

Navigate through git branches is something any developer do several times when working in a project. This can be quite annoying since it is necessary to remember the name of the branch to move to.

Long story short

A simple but effective approach to make this process easier is using this: git checkout $(git branch -a | fzf).

Step by Step

1 - List the available branches with git branch -a. Only the local branches will be listed.

$ git branch -a

2 - Select a branch from the list with fzf

$ git branch -a | fzf

3 - Use the selected branch for the git checkout:

$ git checkout (git branch -a | fzf)

4 - [Bonus] Integrate it at zsh. Appending this into ~/.zsh

alias gck="git checkout (git branch -a | fzf)"