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6 gitk - The Git repository browser
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9 gitk [<option>...] [<revs>] [--] [<path>...]
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13 Displays changes in a repository or a selected set of commits. This
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17 Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It’s written in
18 tcl/tk and started off in a separate repository but was later merged
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22 To control which revisions to show, the command takes options
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26 -n <number>, --max-count=<number>
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30 Show commits more recent than a specific date.
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36 Show all branches.
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39 After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
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45 Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the list of
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52 Automatically select the specified commit after loading the graph.
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56 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision
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64 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note,
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69 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi
70 Show the changes since version v2.6.12 that changed any file in the
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73 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk
74 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file gitk. The
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77 gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile
78 Show at most 100 changes made to the file Makefile. Instead of only
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82 Gitk creates the .gitk file in your $HOME directory to store
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87 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
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90 A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It’s based on
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94 A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter
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