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NAME

       gitk - The Git repository browser


SYNOPSIS

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



DESCRIPTION

       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

       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:

           o   number

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

           o   /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>.

           o   +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

       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

       User configuration and preferences are stored at:

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

       o   $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

       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

       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

       Part of the git(1) suite

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