GITK(1) Git Manual GITK(1)NAMEgitk - The git repository browser
SYNOPSISgitk [<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'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 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.
<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.
EXAMPLESgitk 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 ALSOqgit(1)
A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
gitview(1)
A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It'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.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list
<git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
Git 1.5.5.2 10/21/2008 GITK(1)
