GITK(1)                                                                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. It&#8217;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
              --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(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.


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.


SEE ALSO
       qgit(1)
              A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.


       gitview(1)
              A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It&#8217;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




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