Open source Git clients and utilities to enhance your productivity.
Overview
Regardless of your roles or programming languages used, Git is used by everyone for version control. In this article let’s explore some of the Git-related tools and utilities that can improve our development workflow.
Built-in Tools
By default, Git comes with built-in GUI tools for committing (git-gui) and browsing (gitk).
gitk — The Git repository browser
gitk 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.
E.g., Show the changes during the 2 days.
gitk --since="2 days ago"Show the changes during the last 2 weeks for the file init.lua.
gitk --since="2 weeks ago" -- init.luaShow maximum 3 changes for the file init.lua.
gitk — max-count=3 — all — init.lua
