gitk
(1)
Name
gitk - The git repository browser
Synopsis
gitk [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
Description
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NAME
gitk - The git repository browser
SYNOPSIS
gitk [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
Displays changes in a repository or a selected set of
commits. This includes visualizing the commit graph, showing
information related to each commit, and the files in the
trees of each revision.
Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's
written in tcl/tk and started off in a separate repository
but was later merged into the main git repository.
OPTIONS
To control which revisions to show, the command takes
options applicable to the git rev-list command (see git-rev-
list(1)). This manual page describes only the most
frequently used options.
-n <number>, --max-count=<number>
Limits the number of commits to show.
--since=<date>
Show commits more recent than a specific date.
--until=<date>
Show commits older than a specific date.
--all
Show all branches.
--merge
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 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
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--select-commit=HEAD.
<revs>
Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single
revision meaning show from the given revision and back,
or it can be a range in 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
gitrevisions(5).
<path>...
Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given
paths. Note, to 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 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
Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file
gitk. The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the
branch named gitk
gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile
Show at most 100 changes made to the file Makefile.
Instead of only looking for changes in the current
branch look in all branches.
FILES
Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store
preferences such as display options, font, and colors.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
qgit(1)
A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
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gitview(1)
A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's
based on bzrk(1) and distributed in the contrib area of
the git repository.
tig(1)
A minimal repository browser and git tool output
highlighter written in C using Ncurses.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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