gitk(1)
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. Itīs 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 shown, the command takes options
applicable to the git-rev-list(1) command. 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.
- <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 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in git-rev-parse(1). - <path>
- Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note,
to avoid ambiguity wrt. 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 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.
SEE ALSO
- qgit(1)
- A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
- gitview(1)
- A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. Itīs 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.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org[1]>.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list
<git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
- 1. paulus@samba.org
- mailto:paulus@samba.org
- 2. git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org