# [PATCH] add to gitk documentation 1 messages from 2007-08-17 to 2007-08-17. Participants: David Tweed. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9560 ## David Tweed, 2007-08-17 10:29 Subject: [PATCH] add to gitk documentation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e1dab3980708170329s33ba4937xf9586b296cc4858b%40mail.gmail.com ``` A very brief couple of sentences on the basic "click" usage of gitk which I can't find explicitly documented anywhere else. Signed-off-by: David Tweed -- 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. ```