I’ve never seen anything specifically for gitk. Here’s a stab at it, from a “how does it work” point of view. Knowing the commands that are behind everything (or at least generally equivalent) helps learn to use command-line tools more easily, and also shows you where to look in documentation to understand gitk better! File … Read more
You can check your version of Tcl/Tk by running wish and using the command info patchlevel. It appears that git 2.7.0, Tcl/Tk 8.5.9, and OS X 10.11 El Capitan do not work well together. I solved this problem by doing brew cask install tcl, which installed 8.6.4, and gitk works now.
if you happen to not have a graphical interface available you can also print out the commit graph on the command line: git log –oneline –graph –decorate –all if this command complains with an invalid option –oneline, use: git log –pretty=oneline –graph –decorate –all
Correct, the 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37) does not come with gitk. You can install a more recent version of Git + git-ui as a separate formula by using Homebrew (executable brew). More thorough instructions are located on The fastest and easiest way to install Ruby on a Mac in 2022 (see this commit extracting git-gui/gitk into … Read more
The original poster asks: What is the difference between the two (Committer vs author)? The author is the person who originally wrote the code. The committer, on the other hand, is assumed to be the person who committed the code on behalf of the original author. This is important in Git because Git allows you … Read more