I do not know if you can do what you want, mostly if you can do what you want as simply as you might be wanting that you want it, but I guess you could use this gitk boot command as a _simple_ work around somehow aliased within your command line configuration: $ gitk (--all)? $(git log -m --follow --pretty=format:%h PATHSPEC) Alternatively, there is a _view configuration_ menu (_new view_, _edit view_) where there is a text box labeled _Command to generate more commits to include_. If you type here: git log -m --follow --pretty=format:%h PATHSPEC I do not know what will happen and I can not test that now (I eventually will), but chances are it could do what you wanted. Maybe you can even use custom aliases in there that text box. I guess you are receiving a more authorized answer soonish, in the meanwhile, hope that helped. Regards, On 14 Aug 2017, at 15:20, Burkhardt, Glenn B UTAS <Glenn.Burkhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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.