6 gitk - The git repository browser
10 'gitk' [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
14 Displays changes in a repository or a selected set of commits. This includes
15 visualizing the commit graph, showing information related to each commit, and
16 the files in the trees of each revision.
18 Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's written in tcl/tk
19 and started off in a separate repository but was later merged into the main
24 To control which revisions to shown, the command takes options applicable to
25 the 'git-rev-list' command (see linkgit:git-rev-list[1]).
26 This manual page describes only the most
27 frequently used options.
30 --max-count=<number>::
32 Limits the number of commits to show.
36 Show commits more recent than a specific date.
40 Show commits older than a specific date.
48 After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
49 the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD)
50 that modify the conflicted files.
53 Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the list of
54 <revs> to show. The command is expected to print on its standard
55 output a list of additional revs to be shown, one per line.
56 Use this instead of explicitly specifying <revs> if the set of
57 commits to show may vary between refreshes.
61 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision
62 meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in
63 the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
64 back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
65 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
66 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
70 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
71 avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
72 from any preceding options.
76 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
78 Show as the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any
79 file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
81 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
83 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
84 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
87 gitk --max-count=100 --all \-- Makefile::
89 Show at most 100 changes made to the file 'Makefile'. Instead of only
90 looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches.
94 Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store preferences
95 such as display options, font, and colors.
100 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
103 A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on
104 'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository.
107 A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written
112 Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>.
116 Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list
117 <git@vger.kernel.org>.
121 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite