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Pinned
Under consideration
Support for WSL2 on Windows
The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment on a Windows machine. It also appears there is a workaround for getting this to work with ...
Planned
Support for additional file encoding
GitKraken Git GUI only supports UTF-8 file encoding. Files may display in an unexpected way or be marked a binary if files are not encoded in UTF-8.
As a user, I ...
Under consideration
Compare working copy against specific commit
As a developer, I'd like to see the differences of my working copy to a specific commit node.
I like the compare function when I "ctrl+select" two commit nodes. It ...
Under consideration
Support SSH/config file
As a user with multiple accounts set up in ssh_config, I want GitKraken to support this properly.
GitKraken doesn't seem to be able to respect the certificate ...
Under consideration
Support Worktrees 🌲
A Git worktree is a linked copy of your Git repository, allowing you to have multiple branches checked out at a time. A worktree has a separate path from your main ...
Under consideration
Support multiple GitKraken windows
Ability to open multiple instances of GitKraken as in VSCode (File -> New Window).
I usually have 3-4 projects open at once, each one on a different desktop.
It ...
Under consideration
Add ability to bypass git hooks
When committing there may be times in which bypassing hooks is required, like bypassing linting or various tests for various reasons. The cli switch is `--no-verify`.
Planned
Support Groups of Tabs
I work in many repo's 19+ and there is no way to group tabs in the menu bar. My tab bar is useless when it is so full. I get nice padding around a git branch logo and ...
Under consideration
Azure DevOps Server (TFS) Integration 🔗
While there is an existing integration for Azure DevOps, there is currently no built-in integration for Azure DevOps SERVER.
As a user, I would like to setup a ...
Under consideration
Integration
Implement git bisect 🔍
Git bisect is a useful tool for locating which commit introduced problematic code.
Git SCM reference link: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect
As a user, I ...
Under consideration
AWS Code Commit Integration 🔗
There is currently no built-in integration for AWS Code Commit.
As a user, I would like to setup an integration inside GK to achieve the following benefits:
- ...
Under consideration
Integration
Pin branch to left in the graph 📌
Allow pinning a certain branch to the left side of the graph. All the commits in that branch's direct history should always appear on the left side. This is ...
Under consideration
Improve performance when switching tabs
If a user wants to open or close multiple repo, they have to wait one by one until the UI is ready again. Keeping e.g. the repo tab bar operational would make the UI ...
Planned
Support for ARM64
With the increasing popularity and power of ARM processors, as seen in products like the Raspberry Pi 400 and ROCKPro64, these machines are becoming more viable for ...
Under consideration
Add an option to hide Summary/Description in commit message and let us just time a plain message.
Please add an option to hide Summary/Description in a commit message window, I never use it and just type everything in description, Summary just eats up my display ...
Under consideration
Add force option --force-with-lease
Git push --force overwrites a remote branch with your local branch.
Git push --force-with-lease is a safer option that will not overwrite any work on the remote ...
Under consideration
Support in-app setting for date/time format 🌍
As a user, I wish to keep my language setting but change the date and time format.
It is also useful in this case because this is where I would expect GK to pull ...
Under consideration
Support Cherrypicking of multiple selected commits at once
Select a commit range using Shift-Click or Select multiple commits using Ctrl-Click
Select Cherrypick from the context menu
Under consideration
Add git subtree support 🌳
Git subtree lets you nest one repository inside another as a sub-directory. It is one of several ways Git projects can manage project dependencies and is an ...
Under consideration
Git Functionality
Ability to rename existing stashes
I know I can pop and recommit a stash to rename it, but I want a convenient shortcut like we have with the last commits on branches. This would make it much easier to ...
Planned
Conventional commits support
Support conventional commits (https://www.conventionalcommits.org)
* Support for validation of commits
* Support for initial commit to obey the specification
Not planned
Automate maintenance of old outdated branches
I work with GitHub a lot, through PR with my team.
Whenever a PR is merged, the remote branch is automatically deleted from GitHub, but I am left with the local ...
Under consideration
Quality of Life
Add support for splitting an existing commit
This is one of the few missing features that force me to launch a competing git GUI tool.
The use case is that I or someone on my team have accidentally committed ...
Under consideration
Azure DevOps User Story / Bugs integration
As a user, I would like to select Azure DevOps as Issue traker, similar to Trello, Jira, etc. integration
Under consideration
Integration
Better Gitea integration (e.g. Workspaces)
We use a self-hosted Gitea server and would like better integration for it. Especially for the new "Workspaces" feature or for browsing repositories in general.
Under consideration
Copy deleted lines from Diff View (hunk & inline)
Add the ability to copy / paste deleted lines when viewing diffs in inline and hunk views.
Right now the workaround is to use the split view to copy the deleted ...
Under consideration
SSH Tunneling
I use VS Code on my Mac to edit/run/debug deep-learning code on my Linux machine via SSH tunneling. It's rather slick. It would be great if GitKraken also supported ...
Under consideration
Support more interactive rebase commands and external rebase states
As a developer, I would like support for the rest of the interactive rebase commands in order to properly enable cleaning up branch commits when rebasing. ...
Under consideration
Git Functionality
Reflog support
Git's reflog has the ability to find commits that may have been "lost" due to an accidental branch deletion and gives the ability to reduce the size of a repository ...
Under consideration
More progress details for clone, merge, fetch, push and pull
I was cloning my LFS repo today and it took a while, however the progress bar did not really help me see where it was and how long it had left. The GitHub client and ...
Under consideration
Quality of Life
Configure a custom diff/merge/editor tool within GitKraken
As a user, I would like the ability to set the path to a custom diff, merge, and editor tool within GitKraken in order to use any tool I would like.
This will be ...
Under consideration
Word Wrap in Diff Viewer
As a programmer who frequently works with files with long lines of code, I would like see them in a word-wrapped manner in the diff view in order to actually see the ...
Under consideration
Allow drop of first commit in interactive rebase
When performing an interactive rebase all commits except the first one (bottom in the list) can be dropped. Would be nice if the "Drop" option was available here too. ...
Planned
Option to squash when merging branch
When merging a feature branch that has multiple commits against it back into main, it would be nice to have the option of squashing the commits during the merge.
Under consideration
Support for gitea pull requests
There is currently no support for opening pull requests in self hosted gitea instances.
Would be an absolute prime-feature for myself, as I'm tired of changing to ...
Under consideration
Allow empty commit be created
As a GItKraken user, I would like to avoid the need to resort to use Git command line client to submit empty commit with summary/body/footer messages using syntax ...
Under consideration
Sync profiles across devices
For users who use GitKraken on multiple machines (Mac & Windows) it would be a great QOL improvement, if the profiles would sync between all devices.
I took the ...
Planned
Quality of Life
Integrated Azure DevOps Pull Request View
As a GitKraken user, I would like to manage pull requests for Azure DevOps directly in GitKraken
so that I don't have to navigate to Azure DevOps
Similar to the ...
Under consideration
Integration
Add reviewers to Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server pull requests
As a user, I would like to be able to add reviewers to Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server pull requests.
+ This is useful to be able to do this all in GitKraken ...
Under consideration
Keyboard shortcuts for Push and Pull
Please add keyboard shortcuts for Push and Pull. Configurable shortcuts would also be nice.
Under consideration
Support `autosquash` with `fixup!` commits
As a developer, I would like to easily squash commits prefixed by `fixup!`, in order to quickly rebase branches without reordering fixups manually.
This feature is ...
Not planned
Simpler Authentication against Azure DevOps
Due to security concerns we had to reduce the Azure DevOps PAT lifetime significantly, which requires our developers to authenticate more frequently against Azure ...
Under consideration
Provide option to use custom avatar that doesn't require Gravatar
I prefer not to use Gravatar for various reasons. It doesn't make sense to me to make that the only option.
Under consideration
Context menu icons
It would be really nice to have some subtle icons in the context menu when right-clicking on branches or commits. For example a red X for the delete branch or a PR ...
Under consideration
Quality of Life
Add a 3-way merge UI to ease complicated merges and rebases
When rebasing big changes, it is really hard to keep track of what was changed and why.
A 3-way diff is an absolute necessity to properly resolve conflicts. Right ...
Under consideration
SSH Signing
As added on version 2.34.0 of git (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt)
You can now sign commits with SSH Keys. ...
Under consideration
Configure the length of commit hashes
New Config Settings Request:
Changing the length of the commit hashes displayed and when clicked(copied). So if you copy the hash you dont get the whole commit hash ...
Under consideration