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 gitlink: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<revs>:: 45 46 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision 47 meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in 48 the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and 49 back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied. 50 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see 51 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]. 52 53<path>:: 54 55 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to 56 avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths 57 from any preceding options. 58 59Examples 60-------- 61gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: 62 63 Show as the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any 64 file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories 65 66gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: 67 68 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 69 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 70 'gitk' 71 72gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile:: 73 74 Show at most 100 changes made to the file 'Makefile'. Instead of only 75 looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches. 76 77See Also 78-------- 79'qgit(1)':: 80 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt. 81 82'gitview(1)':: 83 A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on 84 'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository. 85 86'tig(1)':: 87 A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written 88 in C using Ncurses. 89 90Author 91------ 92Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>. 93 94Documentation 95-------------- 96Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list 97<git@vger.kernel.org>. 98 99GIT 100--- 101Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 102