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NAME         top

       gitk - The Git repository browser

SYNOPSIS         top

       gitk [<options>] [<revision range>] [--] [<path>...]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

OPTIONS         top

       To control which revisions to show, gitk supports most options
       applicable to the git rev-list command. It also supports a few
       options applicable to the git diff-* commands to control how the
       changes each commit introduces are shown. Finally, it supports
       some gitk-specific options.

       gitk generally only understands options with arguments in the
       stuck form (see gitcli(7)) due to limitations in the command-line
       parser.

   rev-list options and arguments
       This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
       See git-rev-list(1) for a complete list.

       --all
           Show all refs (branches, tags, etc.).

       --branches[=<pattern>], --tags[=<pattern>], --remotes[=<pattern>]
           Pretend as if all the branches (tags, remote branches, resp.)
           are listed on the command line as <commit>. If <pattern> is
           given, limit refs to ones matching given shell glob. If
           pattern lacks ?, *, or [, /* at the end is implied.

       --since=<date>
           Show commits more recent than a specific date.

       --until=<date>
           Show commits older than a specific date.

       --date-order
           Sort commits by date when possible.

       --merge
           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.

       --left-right
           Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is
           reachable from. Commits from the left side are prefixed with
           a < symbol and those from the right with a > symbol.

       --full-history
           When filtering history with <path>..., does not prune some
           history. (See "History simplification" in git-log(1) for a
           more detailed explanation.)

       --simplify-merges
           Additional option to --full-history to remove some needless
           merges from the resulting history, as there are no selected
           commits contributing to this merge. (See "History
           simplification" in git-log(1) for a more detailed
           explanation.)

       --ancestry-path
           When given a range of commits to display (e.g.
           commit1..commit2 or commit2 ^commit1), only display commits
           that exist directly on the ancestry chain between the commit1
           and commit2, i.e. commits that are both descendants of
           commit1, and ancestors of commit2. (See "History
           simplification" in git-log(1) for a more detailed
           explanation.)

       -L<start>,<end>:<file>, -L:<funcname>:<file>
           Trace the evolution of the line range given by <start>,<end>,
           or by the function name regex <funcname>, within the <file>.
           You may not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently
           limited to a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you
           may only give zero or one positive revision arguments, and
           <start> and <end> (or <funcname>) must exist in the starting
           revision. You can specify this option more than once. Implies
           --patch. Patch output can be suppressed using --no-patch, but
           other diff formats (namely --raw, --numstat, --shortstat,
           --dirstat, --summary, --name-only, --name-status, --check)
           are not currently implemented.

           <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

           •   number

               If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an absolute
               line number (lines count from 1).

           •   /regex/

               This form will use the first line matching the given
               POSIX regex. If <start> is a regex, it will search from
               the end of the previous -L range, if any, otherwise from
               the start of file. If <start> is ^/regex/, it will search
               from the start of file. If <end> is a regex, it will
               search starting at the line given by <start>.

           •   +offset or -offset

               This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number of
               lines before or after the line given by <start>.

           If :<funcname> is given in place of <start> and <end>, it is
           a regular expression that denotes the range from the first
           funcname line that matches <funcname>, up to the next
           funcname line.  :<funcname> searches from the end of the
           previous -L range, if any, otherwise from the start of file.
           ^:<funcname> searches from the start of file. The function
           names are determined in the same way as git diff works out
           patch hunk headers (see Defining a custom hunk-header in
           gitattributes(5)).

       <revision range>
           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 "<from>..<to>" to show all
           revisions between <from> and back to <to>. Note, more
           advanced revision selection can be applied. For a more
           complete list of ways to spell object names, see
           gitrevisions(7).

       <path>...
           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.

   gitk-specific options
       --argscmd=<command>
           Command to be run each time gitk has to determine the
           revision range to show. The command is expected to print on
           its standard output a list of additional revisions to be
           shown, one per line. Use this instead of explicitly
           specifying a <revision range> if the set of commits to show
           may vary between refreshes.

       --select-commit=<ref>
           Select the specified commit after loading the graph. Default
           behavior is equivalent to specifying --select-commit=HEAD.

EXAMPLES         top

       gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi
           Show the changes since version v2.6.12 that changed any file
           in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories

       gitk --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk
           Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file gitk.
           The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the branch
           named gitk

       gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile
           Show at most 100 changes made to the file Makefile. Instead
           of only looking for changes in the current branch look in all
           branches.

FILES         top

       User configuration and preferences are stored at:

       •   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk if it exists, otherwise

       •   $HOME/.gitk if it exists

       If neither of the above exist then $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk is
       created and used by default. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set it
       defaults to $HOME/.config in all cases.

HISTORY         top

       Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It’s written in
       tcl/tk.

       gitk is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
       versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the
       convenience of end users.

       gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras’s gitk project:

           git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk

SEE ALSO         top

       qgit(1)
           A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.

       tig(1)
           A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter
           written in C using Ncurses.

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

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