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6 gitk - The Git repository browser
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9 gitk [<options>] [<revision range>] [--] [<path>...]
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13 Displays changes in a repository or a selected set of commits. This
14 includes visualizing the commit graph, showing information related to
15 each commit, and the files in the trees of each revision.
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18 To control which revisions to show, gitk supports most options
19 applicable to the git rev-list command. It also supports a few options
20 applicable to the git diff-* commands to control how the changes each
21 commit introduces are shown. Finally, it supports some gitk-specific
22 options.
23 gitk generally only understands options with arguments in the sticked
25 form (see gitcli(7)) due to limitations in the command-line parser.
26 rev-list options and arguments
28 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. See
29 git-rev-list(1) for a complete list.
30 --all
32 Show all refs (branches, tags, etc.).
33 --branches[=<pattern>], --tags[=<pattern>], --remotes[=<pattern>]
35 Pretend as if all the branches (tags, remote branches, resp.) are
36 listed on the command line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given,
37 limit refs to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks ?,
38 *, or [, /* at the end is implied.
39 --since=<date>
41 Show commits more recent than a specific date.
42 --until=<date>
44 Show commits older than a specific date.
45 --date-order
47 Sort commits by date when possible.
48 --merge
50 After an attempt to merge stops with conflicts, show the commits on
51 the history between two branches (i.e. the HEAD and the MERGE_HEAD)
52 that modify the conflicted files and do not exist on all the heads
53 being merged.
54 --left-right
56 Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable
57 from. Commits from the left side are prefixed with a < symbol and
58 those from the right with a > symbol.
59 --full-history
61 When filtering history with <path>..., does not prune some history.
62 (See "History simplification" in git-log(1) for a more detailed
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64 --simplify-merges
66 Additional option to --full-history to remove some needless merges
67 from the resulting history, as there are no selected commits
68 contributing to this merge. (See "History simplification" in git-
69 log(1) for a more detailed explanation.)
70 --ancestry-path
72 When given a range of commits to display (e.g. commit1..commit2 or
73 commit2 ^commit1), only display commits that exist directly on the
74 ancestry chain between the commit1 and commit2, i.e. commits that
75 are both descendants of commit1, and ancestors of commit2. (See
76 "History simplification" in git-log(1) for a more detailed
77 explanation.)
78 -L<start>,<end>:<file>, -L:<funcname>:<file>
80 Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" (or
81 the function name regex <funcname>) within the <file>. You may not
82 give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk
83 starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only give zero or
84 one positive revision arguments. You can specify this option more
85 than once.
86 Note: gitk (unlike git-log(1)) currently only understands this
88 option if you specify it "glued together" with its argument. Do not
89 put a space after -L.
90 <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
92 · number
94 If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an absolute line
96 number (lines count from 1).
97 · /regex/
99 This form will use the first line matching the given POSIX
101 regex. If <start> is a regex, it will search from the end of
102 the previous -L range, if any, otherwise from the start of
103 file. If <start> is “^/regex/”, it will search from the start
104 of file. If <end> is a regex, it will search starting at the
105 line given by <start>.
106 · +offset or -offset
108 This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number of lines
110 before or after the line given by <start>.
111 If “:<funcname>” is given in place of <start> and <end>, it is a
113 regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname
114 line that matches <funcname>, up to the next funcname line.
115 “:<funcname>” searches from the end of the previous -L range, if
116 any, otherwise from the start of file. “^:<funcname>” searches from
117 the start of file.
118 <revision range>
120 Limit the revisions to show. This can be either a single revision
121 meaning show from the given revision and back, or it can be a range
122 in the form "<from>..<to>" to show all revisions between <from> and
123 back to <to>. Note, more advanced revision selection can be
124 applied. For a more complete list of ways to spell object names,
125 see gitrevisions(7).
126 <path>...
128 Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note,
129 to avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to
130 separate the paths from any preceding options.
131 gitk-specific options
133 --argscmd=<command>
134 Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the revision
135 range to show. The command is expected to print on its standard
136 output a list of additional revisions to be shown, one per line.
137 Use this instead of explicitly specifying a <revision range> if the
138 set of commits to show may vary between refreshes.
139 --select-commit=<ref>
141 Select the specified commit after loading the graph. Default
142 behavior is equivalent to specifying --select-commit=HEAD.
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145 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi
146 Show the changes since version v2.6.12 that changed any file in the
147 include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
148 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk
150 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file gitk. The
151 "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the branch named gitk
152 gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile
154 Show at most 100 changes made to the file Makefile. Instead of only
155 looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches.
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158 User configuration and preferences are stored at:
159 · $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk if it exists, otherwise
161 · $HOME/.gitk if it exists
163 If neither of the above exist then $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk is created
165 and used by default. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set it defaults to
166 $HOME/.config in all cases.
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169 Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It’s written in
170 tcl/tk.
171 gitk is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
173 versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
174 of end users.
175 gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras’s gitk project:
177 git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
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181 qgit(1)
182 A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
183 tig(1)
185 A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter
186 written in C using Ncurses.
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189 Part of the git(1) suite
190Git 2.18.1 05/14/2019 GITK(1)