GIT-BIG-PICTURE(1)

NAME
git-big-picture - Visualize Git repositories

SYNOPSIS
git-big-picture OPTIONS [REPOSITORY]

DESCRIPTION

Visualize Git repositories

  positional arguments:

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

  options:

-h, --help
    show this help message and exit

--version
    show program's version number 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: rightwards)

--simplify
    remove edges implied by transitivity using Graphviz filter "tred" (default: do not remove implied edges)

-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; a bifurcation commit is a commit that is a parent to more than one other commits, i.e. it marks the point where one or more new branches came to life; bifurcation commits can also be thought of as the counterpart of merge 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

EPILOG
git-big-picture is software libre, licensed under the GPL v3 or later license. Please report bugs at https://github.com/git-big-picture/git-big-picture/issues — thank you!