Documentation/gitk.txt

   1 gitk(1)
   2 =======
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 gitk - git repository browser
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 'gitk' [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
  11
  12 DESCRIPTION
  13 -----------
  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.
  17
  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
  20 git repository.
  21
  22 OPTIONS
  23 -------
  24 To control which revisions to shown, the command takes options applicable to
  25 the gitlink:git-rev-list[1] command. This manual page describes only the most
  26 frequently used options.
  27
  28 -n <number>, --max-count=<number>::
  29
  30         Limits the number of commits to show.
  31
  32 --since=<date>::
  33
  34         Show commits more recent than a specific date.
  35
  36 --until=<date>::
  37
  38         Show commits older than a specific date.
  39
  40 <revs>::
  41
  42         Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision
  43         meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in
  44         the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
  45         back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
  46
  47 <path>::
  48
  49         Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
  50         avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
  51         from any preceeding options.
  52
  53 Examples
  54 --------
  55 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
  56
  57         Show as the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any
  58         file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
  59
  60 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
  61
  62         Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
  63         The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
  64         'gitk'
  65
  66 See Also
  67 --------
  68 'qgit(1)'::
  69         A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
  70
  71 'gitview(1)'::
  72         A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on
  73         'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the git repository.
  74
  75 'tig(1)'::
  76         A minimal repository browser and git tool output highlighter written
  77         in C using Ncurses.
  78
  79 Author
  80 ------
  81 Written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>.
  82
  83 Documentation
  84 --------------
  85 Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca, and the git-list
  86 <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  87
  88 GIT
  89 ---
  90 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  91