Documentation/gitk.txt

   1 gitk(1)
   2 =======
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 gitk - The Git repository browser
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 [verse]
  11 'gitk' [<options>] [<revision range>] [--] [<path>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  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.
  18
  19 OPTIONS
  20 -------
  21
  22 To control which revisions to show, gitk supports most options
  23 applicable to the 'git rev-list' command.  It also supports a few
  24 options applicable to the 'git diff-*' commands to control how the
  25 changes each commit introduces are shown.  Finally, it supports some
  26 gitk-specific options.
  27
  28 gitk generally only understands options with arguments in the
  29 'sticked' form (see linkgit:gitcli[7]) due to limitations in the
  30 command-line parser.
  31
  32 rev-list options and arguments
  33 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  34
  35 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.  See
  36 linkgit:git-rev-list[1] for a complete list.
  37
  38 --all::
  39
  40         Show all refs (branches, tags, etc.).
  41
  42 --branches[=<pattern>]::
  43 --tags[=<pattern>]::
  44 --remotes[=<pattern>]::
  45
  46         Pretend as if all the branches (tags, remote branches, resp.)
  47         are listed on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>'
  48         is given, limit refs to ones matching given shell glob. If
  49         pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}', or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the
  50         end is implied.
  51
  52 --since=<date>::
  53
  54         Show commits more recent than a specific date.
  55
  56 --until=<date>::
  57
  58         Show commits older than a specific date.
  59
  60 --date-order::
  61
  62         Sort commits by date when possible.
  63
  64 --merge::
  65
  66         After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
  67         the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD)
  68         that modify the conflicted files and do not exist on all the heads
  69         being merged.
  70
  71 --left-right::
  72
  73         Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable
  74         from.  Commits from the left side are prefixed with a `<`
  75         symbol and those from the right with a `>` symbol.
  76
  77 --full-history::
  78
  79         When filtering history with '<path>...', does not prune some
  80         history.  (See "History simplification" in linkgit:git-log[1]
  81         for a more detailed explanation.)
  82
  83 --simplify-merges::
  84
  85         Additional option to `--full-history` to remove some needless
  86         merges from the resulting history, as there are no selected
  87         commits contributing to this merge.  (See "History
  88         simplification" in linkgit:git-log[1] for a more detailed
  89         explanation.)
  90
  91 --ancestry-path::
  92
  93         When given a range of commits to display
  94         (e.g. 'commit1..commit2' or 'commit2 {caret}commit1'), only
  95         display commits that exist directly on the ancestry chain
  96         between the 'commit1' and 'commit2', i.e. commits that are
  97         both descendants of 'commit1', and ancestors of 'commit2'.
  98         (See "History simplification" in linkgit:git-log[1] for a more
  99         detailed explanation.)
 100
 101 -L<start>,<end>:<file>::
 102 -L:<funcname>:<file>::
 103
 104         Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>"
 105         (or the function name regex <funcname>) within the <file>.  You may
 106         not give any pathspec limiters.  This is currently limited to
 107         a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only
 108         give zero or one positive revision arguments.
 109         You can specify this option more than once.
 110 +
 111 *Note:* gitk (unlike linkgit:git-log[1]) currently only understands
 112 this option if you specify it "glued together" with its argument.  Do
 113 *not* put a space after `-L`.
 114 +
 115 include::line-range-format.txt[]
 116
 117 <revision range>::
 118
 119         Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision
 120         meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range in
 121         the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
 122         back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
 123         For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
 124         linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 125
 126 <path>...::
 127
 128         Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
 129         avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
 130         from any preceding options.
 131
 132 gitk-specific options
 133 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 134
 135 --argscmd=<command>::
 136
 137         Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the revision
 138         range to show.  The command is expected to print on its
 139         standard output a list of additional revisions to be shown,
 140         one per line.  Use this instead of explicitly specifying a
 141         '<revision range>' if the set of commits to show may vary
 142         between refreshes.
 143
 144 --select-commit=<ref>::
 145
 146         Select the specified commit after loading the graph.
 147         Default behavior is equivalent to specifying '--select-commit=HEAD'.
 148
 149 Examples
 150 --------
 151 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
 152
 153         Show the changes since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any
 154         file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
 155
 156 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
 157
 158         Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
 159         The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
 160         'gitk'
 161
 162 gitk --max-count=100 --all \-- Makefile::
 163
 164         Show at most 100 changes made to the file 'Makefile'. Instead of only
 165         looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches.
 166
 167 Files
 168 -----
 169 User configuration and preferences are stored at:
 170
 171 * `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk` if it exists, otherwise
 172 * `$HOME/.gitk` if it exists
 173
 174 If neither of the above exist then `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk` is created and
 175 used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to
 176 `$HOME/.config` in all cases.
 177
 178 History
 179 -------
 180 Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
 181 tcl/tk.
 182
 183 'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
 184 versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
 185 of end users.
 186
 187 gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
 188
 189         git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
 190
 191 SEE ALSO
 192 --------
 193 'qgit(1)'::
 194         A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
 195
 196 'tig(1)'::
 197         A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter written
 198         in C using Ncurses.
 199
 200 GIT
 201 ---
 202 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite