GITG(1)

✨ GITG(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the gitg manual page, it's giving user commands energy and honestly? iconic. 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

gitg — a Git repository viewer 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gitg [OPTION]... [REPOSITORY]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

gitg is a graphical user interface for git. no cap. 💅

its whole vibe is being a small, fast and convenient little tool to visualize the history of your git repositories. like, it just shows you your commits and it's lowkey gorgeous.

but bestie, that's not all — besides visualization, gitg also provides several utilities to manage your repository and to commit your work. main character multitasking energy fr fr. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Help Options:

• -h, --help — Show help options 💖
• --help-all — Show all help options
• --help-gtk — Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:

• -v, --version — Show the application's version
• --activity — Start gitg with a particular activity
• -c, --commit — Start gitg with the commit activity (shorthand for --activity commit)
• --no-wd — Do not try to load a repository from the current working directory
• --standalone — Run gitg in standalone mode
• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use
• -a, --all — Select all commits by default in the history activity
• -b, --branches — Select all branches by default in the history activity
• -r, --remotes — Select all remotes by default in the history activity
• -t, --tags — Select all tags by default in the history activity
• -s, --select-reference=REFERENCE — Select the specified reference by default in the history activity

gitg will try to load any REPOSITORY passed as command line argument (and yes bestie, multiple paths can be passed, go off 🫶).

If no repository is specified, gitg will try to open the repository specified by the GIT_DIR environment variable; if GIT_DIR is not set, gitg will try to open the repository at the current working directory. it's giving detective work honestly 🔍

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

GIT_DIR

If the GIT_DIR environment variable is set, and no repositories have been passed as command line arguments, then it specifies a path to use instead of the default .git for the base of the repository.

ngl that's the whole section, that's it, that's the tea ☕

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Jesse van den Kieboom — jesse@icecrew.nl
• Alberto Fanjul — albfan@gnome.org

okay so that's the whole page bestie, you ate that. 💅✨ this was gitg from the User Commands corner of the manual, dated December 2018, and i hope your history visualization is forever slay. mwah. 🎀💖🦋🌸