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 sticked 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

       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:

       •   $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

       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