.TH GITG "1" "December 2018" "gitg" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
gitg \- Git repository viewer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gitg
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,REPOSITORY\/\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B gitg
is a graphical user interface for git. It aims at being a small,
fast and convenient tool to visualize the history of git repositories.
Besides visualization, gitg also provides several utilities to manage your
repository and commit your work.
.SH OPTIONS
Help Options:
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Show help options
.TP
\fB\-\-help\-all\fR
Show all help options
.TP
\fB\-\-help\-gtk\fR
Show GTK+ Options
.PP
Application Options:
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Show the application?s version
.TP
\fB\-\-activity\fR
Start gitg with a particular activity
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-commit\fR
Start gitg with the commit activity (shorthand for \fB\-\-activity\fR commit)
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-wd\fR
Do not try to load a repository from the current working directory
.TP
\fB\-\-standalone\fR
Run gitg in standalone mode
.TP
\fB\-\-display\fR=\fI\,DISPLAY\/\fR
X display to use
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR
Select all commits by default in the history activity
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-branches\fR
Select all branches by default in the history activity
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-remotes\fR
Select all remotes by default in the history activity
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tags\fR
Select all tags by default in the history activity
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-select\-reference\fR=\fI\,REFERENCE\/\fR
Select the specified reference by default in the history activity
.PP
.B gitg
will try to load any REPOSITORY passed as command line argument (multiple paths can be passed).
.PP
If no repository is specified,
.B gitg
will try to open the repository specified by the \fBGIT_DIR\fR environment variable;
if \fBGIT_DIR\fR is not set
.B gitg
will try to open the repository at the current working directory.
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
\fBGIT_DIR\fR
.RS 4
If the
\fBGIT_DIR\fR
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
\fB\&.git\fR
for the base of the repository\&.
.RE
.SH AUTHORS
Jesse van den Kieboom  <jesse@icecrew.nl>
.br
Alberto Fanjul  <albfan@gnome.org>