edit: @wiswit has pointed to this good explanation. f2e4113 and d4b9bfc are file-indexes. With git show f2e4113 you see the file before the commit and git show d4b9bfc shows the file after the commit. The combined diff format is in the git diff manual pages described. COMBINED DIFF FORMAT Any diff-generating command can take the … Read more
Maybe you don’t see thin resize widget? It’s between searchbars: Try to change “Edit – Preferences – Use themed widgets” option and restart gitk.
Answering myself… In the Git GUI main menu go to Edit -> Options. In Additional Diff Parameters put -w (or –ignore-all-space). In fact, any other git-diff parameter can go there too.
The problem is gitk –follow will for now differ from git log –follow, considering, according to Linux Torvalds, –follow is mainly a hack: I’m pretty sure I mentioned about this exact issue when I posted the original follow patches, and it basically boils down to: “–follow” is a total hack, and does not use the … Read more
There are three ways ( two others from other answers given here ) 1) git diff origin/master master 2) git diff origin/master..master 3) git diff origin/master…master First one and second one are same and show changes between the tips of the master and remote master. Third one shows changes that occurred on the master since … Read more
I solved the issue by resetting gitk configurations with: rm ~/.config/git/gitk
In windows at least it is perfectly possible :
I just installed the latest version of git via homebrew on macos. 11:28 $ git –version git version 2.25.0 It doesn’t seem to have gitk and git gui so I noticed the answer for linux and tried to install the same package git-gui via homebrew and it worked. brew install git-gui Found the bug here. … Read more
Git-notes With git notes you can add a “note” to a commit. You can also add them to other Git objects, but let’s just focus on commits since that is what the question is about. A note is a Git object, and can in principle be “whatever” (arbitrary data). But we’ll focus on something simple … Read more
I find myself using mainly gitg in combination with the command line for more complicated tasks. Source repository: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gitg. Recently, a new version 0.3.2 has been released, which is a rewrite using Vala. It’s not yet feature-complete compared to the old 0.2 series, but the refactor is expected to speed up future development. Also, there … Read more