Using gitk to view the full history of a moved file

Question

After much searching, I have not found a satisfactory method that is easy to use to view the complete history of a moved file in Git and more importantly in Gitk. Using gi

Answer 1

A simpler function using different git log options and awk to exact the file names (and the "--" that gitk needs is included):

# bash
gitk_follow () {
  while (( "$#" )); do
    git log --pretty="" --name-status --follow $1;
    shift;
  done | awk '{print $NF}' | sort -u
}

# used as:
gitk -- $(gitk_follow some_file)