About a year ago, I discovered it was very helpful for me to have git branches ordered by "recently modified first":

From my `~/.gitconfig`:

    [alias]
        brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset);%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset);%(contents:subject);%(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue);<%(authorname)>' | column -t -s ';'"

I always spent a lot of time being confused about branches, and never realised how easy the solution was.