If HEAD is detached, 'gitk --all' does not show it. This is inconvenient for frontend program, and for example git log does show the detached HEAD. gitk uses git rev-parse to find a list of branches to show. Apparently, the command does not include detached HEAD to output if --all argument is specified. This has been discussed in [1] and stated as expected behavior. So rev-parse's parameters should be tuned in gitk. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/255996 Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@xxxxxxxxxx> --- gitk | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/gitk b/gitk index c8df35d..a5d98bf 100755 --- a/gitk +++ b/gitk @@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ proc parseviewrevs {view revs} { if {$revs eq {}} { set revs HEAD + } elseif {[lsearch -exact $revs --all] >= 0} { + lappend revs HEAD } if {[catch {set ids [eval exec git rev-parse $revs]} err]} { # we get stdout followed by stderr in $err -- 2.0.1.1697.g73c6810 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html