1gitk(1) 2======= 3 4NAME 5---- 6gitk - The git repository browser 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'gitk' [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14Displays changes in a repository or a selected set of commits. This includes 15visualizing the commit graph, showing information related to each commit, and 16the files in the trees of each revision. 17 18Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's written in tcl/tk 19and started off in a separate repository but was later merged into the main 20git repository. 21 22OPTIONS 23------- 24To control which revisions to shown, the command takes options applicable to 25the 'git-rev-list' command (see linkgit:git-rev-list[1]). 26This manual page describes only the most 27frequently used options. 28 29-n <number>:: 30--max-count=<number>:: 31 32 Limits the number of commits to show. 33 34--since=<date>:: 35 36 Show commits more recent than a specific date. 37 38--until=<date>:: 39 40 Show commits older than a specific date. 41 42--all:: 43 44 Show all branches. 45 46--merge:: 47 48 After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on 49 the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD) 50 that modify the conflicted files. 51 52<revs>:: 53 54 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision 55 meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in 56 the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and 57 back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied. 58 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see 59 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. 60 61<path>:: 62 63 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to 64 avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths 65 from any preceding options. 66 67Examples 68-------- 69gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: 70 71 Show as the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any 72 file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories 73 74gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: 75 76 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 77 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 78 'gitk' 79 80gitk --max-count=100 --all \-- Makefile:: 81 82 Show at most 100 changes made to the file 'Makefile'. Instead of only 83 looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches. 84 85Files 86----- 87Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store preferences 88such as display options, font, and colors. 89 90SEE ALSO 91-------- 92'qgit(1)':: 93 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt. 94 95'gitview(1)':: 96 A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on 97 'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository. 98 99'tig(1)':: 100 A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written 101 in C using Ncurses. 102 103Author 104------ 105Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>. 106 107Documentation 108-------------- 109Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list 110<git@vger.kernel.org>. 111 112GIT 113--- 114Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite