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gitk seems to have very nice interface design and whatnot. I really want to explore its source code. So where can I find it?

By gitk, I mean the one to view the repository history of git.

dacongy
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gitk lives in a subfolder of git's official repository.

It's written in wish/Tcl. Its folder (at time of writing) can be found at https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/gitk-git, mostly contained in a single file called gitk.

mwfearnley
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When dealing with Open Source get it from the horses mouth - gitk is now part of the git distribution.

http://git-scm.com/download

git clone git://github.com/gitster/git.git
Adrian Cornish
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  • The page seems to have changed the official repo URL at some point in the last few years - it now points to https://github.com/git/git. /gitster/git still seems to be in sync though. – mwfearnley Apr 20 '15 at 13:37
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gitk is its own source code, since it is written in tcl and tcl is a scripting language. Just open /usr/bin/gitk with the text editor of your choice. It seems to be contained in a single file.

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