SYNOPSIS
--------
+[verse]
'gitk' [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-------
-To control which revisions to shown, the command takes options applicable to
-the 'git-rev-list' command (see linkgit:git-rev-list[1]).
+To control which revisions to show, the command takes options applicable to
+the 'git rev-list' command (see linkgit:git-rev-list[1]).
This manual page describes only the most
frequently used options.
After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD)
- that modify the conflicted files.
+ that modify the conflicted files and do not exist on all the heads
+ being merged.
+
+--argscmd=<command>::
+ Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the list of
+ <revs> to show. The command is expected to print on its standard
+ output a list of additional revs to be shown, one per line.
+ Use this instead of explicitly specifying <revs> if the set of
+ commits to show may vary between refreshes.
+
+--select-commit=<ref>::
+
+ Automatically select the specified commit after loading the graph.
+ Default behavior is equivalent to specifying '--select-commit=HEAD'.
<revs>::
the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
- "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+ linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
<path>...::
Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
- avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
+ avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
from any preceding options.
Examples
--------
gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
- Show as the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any
+ Show the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any
file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written
in C using Ncurses.
-Author
-------
-Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite