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