You can specify which branches you want by specifying them as arguments to the gitk
command. I'm assuming that you're already using --all
, but you might be interested to know that there's also a --not
flag...although it has some side effects and is not too useful in most circumstances.
Consider a repository that looks like this:
git checkout feature-B
gitk --all
If you specify no arguments, you get just the branch you're on:
gitk
If you specify multiple branches, you get those branches, and the branches that are fully merged (i.e. they don't "stick out"). For example, here I have feature-B
, feature-C
, along with the fully merged feature-A
and master
, but no feature-D
:
gitk feature-B feature-C
Finally, you can use the --not
flag to ignore a branch. However, since a branch refers to all the commits that lead up to it, the --not
flag will ignore commits that are on the branches that you do specify.
gitk feature-B --not feature-D
gitk --all --not feature-D feature-C
Both of these will give you:
Here, the commits Initial commit
and 1
are ignored, because they belonged to branch feature-D
. Commit 2
is also ignored for the same reason, but is shown as an empty commit, since it would be incorrect and misleading to show commit 3
as the initial commit in the branch. This flag can be helpful sometimes, but I don't usually find myself using it.