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