gitk - The Git repository browser
gitk [<options>] [<revision range>] [--] [<path>...]
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NAME
gitk - The Git repository browser
SYNOPSIS
gitk [<options>] [<revision range>] [--] [<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.
OPTIONS
To control which revisions to show, gitk supports most options
applicable to the git rev-list command. It also supports a few options
applicable to the git diff-* commands to control how the changes each
commit introduces are shown. Finally, it supports some gitk-specific
options.
gitk generally only understands options with arguments in the sticked
form (see gitcli(7)) due to limitations in the command-line parser.
rev-list options and arguments
This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. See
git-rev-list(1) for a complete list.
--all
Show all refs (branches, tags, etc.).
--branches[=<pattern>], --tags[=<pattern>], --remotes[=<pattern>]
Pretend as if all the branches (tags, remote branches, resp.) are
listed on the command line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given,
limit refs to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks ?,
*, or [, /* at the end is implied.
--since=<date>
Show commits more recent than a specific date.
--until=<date>
Show commits older than a specific date.
--date-order
Sort commits by date when possible.
--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.
--left-right
Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable
from. Commits from the left side are prefixed with a < symbol and
those from the right with a > symbol.
--full-history
When filtering history with <path>..., does not prune some history.
(See "History simplification" in git-log(1) for a more detailed
explanation.)
--simplify-merges
Additional option to --full-history to remove some needless merges
from the resulting history, as there are no selected commits
contributing to this merge. (See "History simplification" in git-
log(1) for a more detailed explanation.)
--ancestry-path
When given a range of commits to display (e.g. commit1..commit2 or
commit2 ^commit1), only display commits that exist directly on the
ancestry chain between the commit1 and commit2, i.e. commits that
are both descendants of commit1, and ancestors of commit2. (See
"History simplification" in git-log(1) for a more detailed
explanation.)
-L<start>,<end>:<file>, -L:<funcname>:<file>
Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" (or
the function name regex <funcname>) within the <file>. You may not
give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk
starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only give zero or
one positive revision arguments. You can specify this option more
than once.
Note: gitk (unlike git-log(1)) currently only understands this
option if you specify it "glued together" with its argument. Do not
put a space after -L.
<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
o number
If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an absolute line
number (lines count from 1).
o /regex/
This form will use the first line matching the given POSIX
regex. If <start> is a regex, it will search from the end of
the previous -L range, if any, otherwise from the start of
file. If <start> is "^/regex/", it will search from the start
of file. If <end> is a regex, it will search starting at the
line given by <start>.
o +offset or -offset
This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number of lines
before or after the line given by <start>.
If ":<funcname>" is given in place of <start> and <end>, it is a
regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname
line that matches <funcname>, up to the next funcname line.
":<funcname>" searches from the end of the previous -L range, if
any, otherwise from the start of file. "^:<funcname>" searches from
the start of file.
<revision range>
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(7).
<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.
gitk-specific options
--argscmd=<command>
Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the revision
range to show. The command is expected to print on its standard
output a list of additional revisions to be shown, one per line.
Use this instead of explicitly specifying a <revision range> if the
set of commits to show may vary between refreshes.
--select-commit=<ref>
Select the specified commit after loading the graph. Default
behavior is equivalent to specifying --select-commit=HEAD.
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
User configuration and preferences are stored at:
o $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk if it exists, otherwise
o $HOME/.gitk if it exists
If neither of the above exist then $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk is created
and used by default. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set it defaults to
$HOME/.config in all cases.
HISTORY
Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
tcl/tk.
gitk is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
of end users.
gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
SEE ALSO
qgit(1)
A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
tig(1)
A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter
written in C using Ncurses.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 2.15.2 05/29/2018 GITK(1)