6 gitk - The git repository browser
11 'gitk' [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
15 Displays changes in a repository or a selected set of commits. This includes
16 visualizing the commit graph, showing information related to each commit, and
17 the files in the trees of each revision.
19 Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's written in tcl/tk
20 and started off in a separate repository but was later merged into the main
25 To control which revisions to show, the command takes options applicable to
26 the 'git rev-list' command (see linkgit:git-rev-list[1]).
27 This manual page describes only the most
28 frequently used options.
31 --max-count=<number>::
33 Limits the number of commits to show.
37 Show commits more recent than a specific date.
41 Show commits older than a specific date.
49 After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
50 the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD)
51 that modify the conflicted files and do not exist on all the heads
55 Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the list of
56 <revs> to show. The command is expected to print on its standard
57 output a list of additional revs to be shown, one per line.
58 Use this instead of explicitly specifying <revs> if the set of
59 commits to show may vary between refreshes.
61 --select-commit=<ref>::
63 Automatically select the specified commit after loading the graph.
64 Default behavior is equivalent to specifying '--select-commit=HEAD'.
68 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision
69 meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in
70 the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
71 back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
72 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
73 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
77 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
78 avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
79 from any preceding options.
83 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
85 Show the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any
86 file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
88 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
90 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
91 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
94 gitk --max-count=100 --all \-- Makefile::
96 Show at most 100 changes made to the file 'Makefile'. Instead of only
97 looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches.
101 Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store preferences
102 such as display options, font, and colors.
107 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
110 A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on
111 'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository.
114 A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written
119 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite