{"thread":{"id":"9560","subject":"[PATCH] add to gitk documentation","startedAt":"2007-08-17T10:29:05Z","lastAt":"2007-08-17T10:29:05Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["David Tweed"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"50929","messageId":"e1dab3980708170329s33ba4937xf9586b296cc4858b@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"9560","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] add to gitk documentation","fromName":"David Tweed","fromEmail":"david.tweed@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-08-17T10:29:05Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-17T10:29:05Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"david.tweed@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"A very brief couple of sentences on the basic \"click\" usage of gitk\nwhich I can't find explicitly documented anywhere else.\n\nSigned-off-by: David Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>\n-- \n Documentation/gitk.txt |    7 +++++++\n 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\ndiff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt\nindex e9f82b9..d9fb0a7 100644\n--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt\n@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ Displays changes in a repository or a selected set\nof commits. This includes\n visualizing the commit graph, showing information related to each commit, and\n the files in the trees of each revision.\n\n+The basic idea in gitk is that clicking on an element related to a commit\n+(either the nodes in the commit graph or the commit brief message)\n+provides both metadata and either a diff with the immediate parent or\n+the tree contents of the commit (depending whether the patch or tree view\n+is chosen). Clicking on a yellow tag marker provides the object id of the\n+commit it references.\n+\n Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's written in tcl/tk\n and started off in a separate repository but was later merged into the main\n git repository.\n"}]}