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 <h1>
 gitk(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>gitk -
  The Git repository browser
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div id="content">
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="verseblock">
 <pre class="content"><em>gitk</em> [&lt;options&gt;] [&lt;revision range&gt;] [--] [&lt;path&gt;&#8230;]</pre>
 <div class="attribution">
 </div></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>To control which revisions to show, gitk supports most options
 applicable to the <em>git rev-list</em> command. It also supports a few
 options applicable to the <em>git diff-*</em> commands to control how the
 changes each commit introduces are shown. Finally, it supports some
 gitk-specific options.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>gitk generally only understands options with arguments in the
 <em>sticked</em> form (see <a href="gitcli.html">gitcli(7)</a>) due to limitations in the
 command-line parser.</p></div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_rev_list_options_and_arguments">rev-list options and arguments</h3>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. See
 <a href="git-rev-list.html">git-rev-list(1)</a> for a complete list.</p></div>
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --all
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show all refs (branches, tags, etc.).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --branches[=&lt;pattern&gt;]
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --tags[=&lt;pattern&gt;]
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --remotes[=&lt;pattern&gt;]
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Pretend as if all the branches (tags, remote branches, resp.)
  are listed on the command line as <em>&lt;commit&gt;</em>. If <em>&lt;pattern&gt;</em>
  is given, limit refs to ones matching given shell glob. If
  pattern lacks <em>?</em>, <em>&#42;</em>, or <em>[</em>, <em>/&#42;</em> at the
  end is implied.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --since=&lt;date&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show commits more recent than a specific date.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --until=&lt;date&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show commits older than a specific date.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --date-order
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Sort commits by date when possible.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --merge
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --left-right
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable
  from. Commits from the left side are prefixed with a <code>&lt;</code>
  symbol and those from the right with a <code>&gt;</code> symbol.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --full-history
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  When filtering history with <em>&lt;path&gt;&#8230;</em>, does not prune some
  history. (See "History simplification" in <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>
  for a more detailed explanation.)
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --simplify-merges
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Additional option to <code>--full-history</code> to remove some needless
  merges from the resulting history, as there are no selected
  commits contributing to this merge. (See "History
  simplification" in <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a> for a more detailed
  explanation.)
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --ancestry-path
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  When given a range of commits to display
  (e.g. <em>commit1..commit2</em> or <em>commit2 &#94;commit1</em>), only
  display commits that exist directly on the ancestry chain
  between the <em>commit1</em> and <em>commit2</em>, i.e. commits that are
  both descendants of <em>commit1</em>, and ancestors of <em>commit2</em>.
  (See "History simplification" in <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a> for a more
  detailed explanation.)
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -L&lt;start&gt;,&lt;end&gt;:&lt;file&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -L:&lt;funcname&gt;:&lt;file&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Trace the evolution of the line range given by "&lt;start&gt;,&lt;end&gt;"
  (or the function name regex &lt;funcname&gt;) within the &lt;file&gt;. 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.
  You can specify this option more than once.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p><strong>Note:</strong> gitk (unlike <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>) currently only understands
 this option if you specify it "glued together" with its argument. Do
 <strong>not</strong> put a space after <code>-L</code>.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>&lt;start&gt; and &lt;end&gt; can take one of these forms:</p></div>
 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 <li>
 <p>
 number
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>If &lt;start&gt; or &lt;end&gt; is a number, it specifies an
 absolute line number (lines count from 1).</p></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 /regex/
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This form will use the first line matching the given
 POSIX regex. If &lt;start&gt; is a regex, it will search from the end of
 the previous <code>-L</code> range, if any, otherwise from the start of file.
 If &lt;start&gt; is &#8220;^/regex/&#8221;, it will search from the start of file.
 If &lt;end&gt; is a regex, it will search
 starting at the line given by &lt;start&gt;.</p></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 +offset or -offset
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is only valid for &lt;end&gt; and will specify a number
 of lines before or after the line given by &lt;start&gt;.</p></div>
 </li>
 </ul></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>If &#8220;:&lt;funcname&gt;&#8221; is given in place of &lt;start&gt; and &lt;end&gt;, it is a
 regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname line
 that matches &lt;funcname&gt;, up to the next funcname line. &#8220;:&lt;funcname&gt;&#8221;
 searches from the end of the previous <code>-L</code> range, if any, otherwise
 from the start of file. &#8220;^:&lt;funcname&gt;&#8221; searches from the start of
 file.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 &lt;revision range&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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 "<em>&lt;from&gt;</em>..<em>&lt;to&gt;</em>" to show all revisions between <em>&lt;from&gt;</em> and
  back to <em>&lt;to&gt;</em>. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
  For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
  <a href="gitrevisions.html">gitrevisions(7)</a>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 &lt;path&gt;&#8230;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_gitk_specific_options">gitk-specific options</h3>
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --argscmd=&lt;command&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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
  <em>&lt;revision range&gt;</em> if the set of commits to show may vary
  between refreshes.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --select-commit=&lt;ref&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Select the specified commit after loading the graph.
  Default behavior is equivalent to specifying <em>--select-commit=HEAD</em>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_examples">Examples</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 gitk v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show the changes since version <em>v2.6.12</em> that changed any
  file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 gitk --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file <em>gitk</em>.
  The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the <strong>branch</strong> named
  <em>gitk</em>
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 gitk --max-count=100 --all -- Makefile
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show at most 100 changes made to the file <em>Makefile</em>. Instead of only
  looking for changes in the current branch look in all branches.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_files">Files</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>User configuration and preferences are stored at:</p></div>
 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 <li>
 <p>
 <em>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk</em> if it exists, otherwise
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 <em>$HOME/.gitk</em> if it exists
 </p>
 </li>
 </ul></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>If neither of the above exist then <em>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk</em> is created and
 used by default. If <em>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</em> is not set it defaults to
 <em>$HOME/.config</em> in all cases.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_history">History</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It&#8217;s written in
 tcl/tk.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>gitk</em> is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
 versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
 of end users.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras&#8217;s gitk project:</p></div>
 <div class="literalblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>qgit(1)</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>tig(1)</em>
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter written
  in C using Ncurses.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
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