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 show, 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 and do not exist on all the heads 51 being merged. 52 53--argscmd=<command>:: 54 Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the list of 55 <revs> to show. The command is expected to print on its standard 56 output a list of additional revs to be shown, one per line. 57 Use this instead of explicitly specifying <revs> if the set of 58 commits to show may vary between refreshes. 59 60--select-commit=<ref>:: 61 62 Automatically select the specified commit after loading the graph. 63 Default behavior is equivalent to specifying '--select-commit=HEAD'. 64 65<revs>:: 66 67 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision 68 meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in 69 the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and 70 back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied. 71 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see 72 linkgit:gitrevisions[1]. 73 74<path>...:: 75 76 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to 77 avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths 78 from any preceding options. 79 80Examples 81-------- 82gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: 83 84 Show the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any 85 file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories 86 87gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: 88 89 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 90 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 91 'gitk' 92 93gitk --max-count=100 --all \-- Makefile:: 94 95 Show at most 100 changes made to the file 'Makefile'. Instead of only 96 looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches. 97 98Files 99----- 100Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store preferences 101such as display options, font, and colors. 102 103SEE ALSO 104-------- 105'qgit(1)':: 106 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt. 107 108'gitview(1)':: 109 A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on 110 'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository. 111 112'tig(1)':: 113 A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written 114 in C using Ncurses. 115 116Author 117------ 118Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>. 119 120Documentation 121-------------- 122Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list 123<git@vger.kernel.org>. 124 125GIT 126--- 127Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite