diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 0bdb14638..f0b0813c8 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ proc parseviewargs {n arglist} {
 	    "--until=*" - "--before=*" - "--max-age=*" - "--min-age=*" -
 	    "--author=*" - "--committer=*" - "--grep=*" - "-[iE]" -
 	    "--remove-empty" - "--first-parent" - "--cherry-pick" -
-	    "-S*" - "--pickaxe-all" - "--pickaxe-regex" -
+	    "-S*" - "-G*" - "--pickaxe-all" - "--pickaxe-regex" -
 	    "--simplify-by-decoration" {
 		# These mean that we get a subset of the commits
 		set filtered 1