A very brief couple of sentences on the basic "click" usage of gitk
which I can't find explicitly documented anywhere else.
Signed-off-by: David Tweed <redacted>
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@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ Displays changes in a repository or a selected set
of commits. This includes
visualizing the commit graph, showing information related to each commit, and
the files in the trees of each revision.
+The basic idea in gitk is that clicking on an element related to a commit
+(either the nodes in the commit graph or the commit brief message)
+provides both metadata and either a diff with the immediate parent or
+the tree contents of the commit (depending whether the patch or tree view
+is chosen). Clicking on a yellow tag marker provides the object id of the
+commit it references.
+
Historically, gitk was the first repository browser. It's written in tcl/tk
and started off in a separate repository but was later merged into the main
git repository.