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} div.exampleblock-content { border-left: 2px solid silver; padding-left: 0.5em; } /* IE6 sets dynamically generated links as visited. */ div#toc a:visited { color: blue; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <h1> gitk(1) Manual Page </h1> <h2>NAME</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <p>gitk - The git repository browser </p> </div> </div> <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p><em>gitk</em> [<option>…] [<revs>] [--] [<path>…]</p></div> </div> <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div> </div> <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>To control which revisions to show, the command takes options applicable to the <em>git rev-list</em> command (see <a href="git-rev-list.html">git-rev-list(1)</a>). This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.</p></div> <div class="dlist"><dl> <dt class="hdlist1"> -n <number> </dt> <dt class="hdlist1"> --max-count=<number> </dt> <dd> <p> Limits the number of commits to show. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --since=<date> </dt> <dd> <p> Show commits more recent than a specific date. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --until=<date> </dt> <dd> <p> Show commits older than a specific date. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --all </dt> <dd> <p> Show all branches. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --merge </dt> <dd> <p> 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. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --argscmd=<command> </dt> <dd> <p> 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. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --select-commit=<ref> </dt> <dd> <p> Automatically select the specified commit after loading the graph. Default behavior is equivalent to specifying <em>--select-commit=HEAD</em>. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> <revs> </dt> <dd> <p> 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 "<em><from></em>..<em><to></em>" to show all revisions between <em><from></em> and back to <em><to></em>. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied. For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see <a href="gitrevisions.html">gitrevisions(7)</a>. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> <path>… </dt> <dd> <p> 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. </p> </dd> </dl></div> </div> <h2 id="_examples">Examples</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="dlist"><dl> <dt class="hdlist1"> gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi </dt> <dd> <p> Show the changes since version <em>v2.6.12</em> that changed any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> gitk --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk </dt> <dd> <p> Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file <em>gitk</em>. The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the <strong>branch</strong> named <em>gitk</em> </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile </dt> <dd> <p> Show at most 100 changes made to the file <em>Makefile</em>. Instead of only looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches. </p> </dd> </dl></div> </div> <h2 id="_files">Files</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store preferences such as display options, font, and colors.</p></div> </div> <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="dlist"><dl> <dt class="hdlist1"> <em>qgit(1)</em> </dt> <dd> <p> A repository browser written in C++ using Qt. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> <em>gitview(1)</em> </dt> <dd> <p> A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It’s based on <em>bzrk(1)</em> and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> <em>tig(1)</em> </dt> <dd> <p> A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written in C using Ncurses. </p> </dd> </dl></div> </div> <h2 id="_author">Author</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Written by Paul Mackerras <<a href="mailto:paulus@samba.org">paulus@samba.org</a>>.</p></div> </div> <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list <<a href="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</a>>.</p></div> </div> <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> Last updated 2010-12-16 02:52:11 UTC </div> </div> </body> </html>