[PATCH] add to gitk documentation

From

DTDavid Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>

Date

Aug 17, 2007, 10:29 UTC

Message-ID

<e1dab3980708170329s33ba4937xf9586b296cc4858b@mail.gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>

-- 
 Documentation/gitk.txt |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index e9f82b9..d9fb0a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ 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.

+The basic idea in gitk is that clicking on an element related to a commit
+(either the nodes in the commit graph or the commit brief message)
+provides both metadata and either a diff with the immediate parent or
+the tree contents of the commit (depending whether the patch or tree view
+is chosen). Clicking on a yellow tag marker provides the object id of the
+commit it references.
+
 Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's written in tcl/tk
 and started off in a separate repository but was later merged into the main
 git repository.