They don't. In particular, information about commits that are parts of merges is missing.
Here's an example. There are only two entries listed in 'gitk --all' for a particular file (sorry, I'd prefer to include a screen sho, but the mailing list doesn't allow HTML messages).
gitk --all MANIFEST.MF
Parent: f7462684ae78720aac05c929256d770118cf01fa (initial clone from Clearcase integ3 branch)
Branches: master, remotes/origin/master, remotes/origin/ww, ww
Follows:
Precedes:
require java 1.8
Child: 240f151d61fd4fd06f377bc52970b3574e5f9031 (require java 1.8)
Branches: master, remotes/origin/master, remotes/origin/ww, ww
Follows:
Precedes:
initial clone from Clearcase integ3 branch
git log with '-m' and '-follow' shows:
$ git log -m --follow --oneline MANIFEST.MF
9cc8be4 (from 1222d7c) Merge branch 'master' into ww; strategy "ours"
a423f2d (from f869950) merge from ww branch; remove Bundle-NativeCode
51f0628 (from 2c6478c) Merge branch 'ww' of coverity:rmps into ww
240f151 require java 1.8
f746268 initial clone from Clearcase integ3 branch
-----Original Message-----
From: Uxío Prego [mailto:uprego@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 01:12
To: Burkhardt, Glenn B UTAS
Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [External] Re: gitk -m ?
Not sure what you are wanting to achieve, but please make sure neither `gitk PATHSPEC` nor `gitk --all PATHSPEC` are presenting you enough information.
> On 3 Aug 2017, at 19:37, Burkhardt, Glenn B UTAS <Glenn.Burkhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've been looking in 'gitk' for an option that does what 'git log -m' does. Did I miss something? In particular, I'd like to get information about a file that's currently available with "git log -m --all --follow", but presented in 'gitk'. If it's not there, please consider this a feature request.
>
> Thanks.
