Positional Arguments:¶

<repo-directory>

path to the Git working directory (default: current directory)

Optional Arguments:¶

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--pstats=FILE

run cProfile profiler writing pstats output to FILE

-d, --debug

activate debug output

Output Options:¶

Options to control output and format

-f FMT, --format=FMT

set output format [svg, png, ps, pdf, ...]

--history-direction {downwards,leftwards,rightwards,upwards}

enforce a specific direction of history on Graphviz (default: upwards)

-g, --graphviz

output lines suitable as input for dot/graphviz

-G, --no-graphviz

disable dot/graphviz output

-p, --processed

output the dot processed, binary data

-P, --no-processed

disable binary output

-v CMD, --viewer=CMD

write image to tempfile and start specified viewer

-V, --no-viewer

disable starting viewer

-o FILE, --outfile=FILE

write image to specified file

-O, --no-outfile

disable writing image to file

-w SECONDS, --wait SECONDS

wait for SECONDS seconds before deleting the temporary file that is opened using the viewer command (default: 2.0 seconds); this helps e.g. with viewer commands that tell other running processes to open that file on their behalf, to then shut themselves down

Filter Options:¶

Options to control commit/ref selection

-a, --all

include all commits

-b, --branches

show commits pointed to by branches

-B, --no-branches

do not show commits pointed to by branches

-t, --tags

show commits pointed to by tags

-T, --no-tags

do not show commits pointed to by tags

-r, --roots

show root commits

-R, --no-roots

do not show root commits

-m, --merges

include merge commits

-M, --no-merges

do not include merge commits

-i, --bifurcations

include bifurcation commits

-I, --no-bifurcations

do not include bifurcation commits

-c, --commit-messages

include commit messages on labels

-C, --no-commit-messages

do not include commit messages on labels