User Suggestions - GitKraken

Support nbdime diff tool

Allow selection of diff program for jupyter notebooks. When I diff my jupyter notebooks, I see differences in all of the irrelevant metadata and output, when all I ...

Suggested by: Mike Schmidt (28 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 14 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

57 votes

Support shallow clones

It would be nice if Gitkraken supported shallow clones. At minimal, if it could detect that it is shallow clone and explained that or proposed to unshallow the ...

Suggested by: Julien Marrec (20 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 29 Sep • Comments: 4

Under consideration

56 votes

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 ...

Suggested by: Florian (01 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 19 Sep • Comments: 7

Under consideration

55 votes

sparse-checkout support

I would like sparse-checkout support in order to make working with large repositories (e.g., monorepos) manageable. GitKraken is approximately 5-10x slower than ...

Suggested by: Brian (09 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 11 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

54 votes

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 ...

Suggested by: Casey (10 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 01 Aug • Comments: 4

Under consideration Quality of Life

53 votes

Switch branches even if some files are locked by IDE

When working on a repository that's open in VS Code, GitKraken is often unable to switch between branches, reporting that it couldn't delete some directory. This ...

Suggested by: Roman (26 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 19 Sep • Comments: 14

Under consideration

53 votes

Support Chinese commit search

As a user, I want GitKraken to support Chinese characters when searching through commits in the graph.

Suggested by: livre (20 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Sep • Comments: 8

Under consideration

52 votes

Use default account email for gravatar on anonymized GitHub emails

When using GitHub anonymized email accounts, it would be nice to have that detected and use the GitKraken email account to find the Gravatar instead of creating a ...

Suggested by: Brian (21 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 18 Sep • Comments: 3

Under consideration Quality of Life

50 votes

Ability to run custom shell scripts

Add custom commands to the toolbar and context-menus to quickly run custom shell scripts. I have some shell-scripts in my home-directory that I run when my ...

Suggested by: Dai Rees (30 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 27 Sep • Comments: 12

Under consideration

47 votes

Fetch submodules automatically

Currently with release 7.6.1 if repository uses submodules, there is an inevitability to open each submodule before updating main repository ( fast forward, checkout ...

Suggested by: Szymon (01 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Jul • Comments: 7

Under consideration Quality of Life

47 votes

ClickUp Integration

I see that you offer Jira integration, but many people have moved on from Jira...to things like Asana, Monday, and ClickUp. I chose ClickUp out of those three because ...

Suggested by: Matt Hillebrand (24 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 03 Aug • Comments: 6

Under consideration

46 votes

Option to delete remote branch on Gitflow Finish

The Gitflow "Finish Feature" (also release and hotfix) has an option to "Delete branch". But this only deletes the local branch and not the remote branch. This ...

Suggested by: Trey Gourley (19 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 19 Sep • Comments: 3

Under consideration Quality of Life

46 votes

Visual cues for branches and remotes

I often have several remotes added for a given repository. Especially on GitHub doing open-source work. On some repositories (including some GitHub Exterprise ...

Suggested by: Kevin Bost (05 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 26 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

45 votes

Push to multiple remotes

We have the need to push our code to both Github enterprise and Azure Devops it would be great if there was a way to tell GitKraken to push to both locations rather ...

Suggested by: Jeremy (01 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 7

Under consideration

45 votes

Allow Customization of Summary Character Length

As discussed here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69706975/how-to-extend-gitkraken-commit-summary-length It would be nice to allow customization of the ...

Suggested by: Calvin Allen (16 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 30 Aug • Comments: 3

Under consideration

44 votes

Option to push all tags at once 🏷

As a user, I would like the option to push all tags at once from GitKraken. This would be the equivalent of the `git push --tags` command.

Suggested by: Axel Pardemann (17 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 23 Aug • Comments: 11

Not planned

44 votes

Support "Jetbrains Space"

Space is a new service from JetBrains, it has tickets & repositories. It'll be greatly appreciated if GitKraken could integrate with the tickets system and the ...

Suggested by: Eliran Teller (21 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 25 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

43 votes

Open submodule into a new tab

Currently, opening a submodule replaces the current tab content ; is ti possible to open a new tab for the submodule?

Suggested by: OlivierB (19 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Sep • Comments: 10

Under consideration

42 votes

Ability to configure naming convention when creating branch from issue

At the current state of the app on integration with JIRA/GitHub/Trello when clicking on create branch for an issue the app automatically generate a name according to ...

Suggested by: Aviya (18 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 29 Sep • Comments: 15

Under consideration

42 votes

Allow users to sign out

Create a 'sign out' button under profile that allows users to sign out.

Suggested by: Max (10 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 12

Not planned

42 votes

'Stash' shouldn't stash untracked files

Unlike the git command line, when stashing GitKraken automatically stages and stashes untracked (and not ignored) files. Because GitKraken also auto-stashes when ...

Suggested by: Tim Bates (19 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Jul • Comments: 6

Under consideration

42 votes

git-crypt support

Please support git-crypt. Git-crypt lets you encrypt sensitive information in git repos and can automatically encrypt and decrypt the files as you push and pull ...

Suggested by: Lorant (02 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Sep • Comments: 2

Under consideration

41 votes

Gitmoji picker or completion

Some kind of convenient way to insert gitmoji into commit messages https://gitmoji.dev/

Suggested by: Chuck Dries (15 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 29 Sep • Comments: 2

Under consideration

40 votes

Ability to filter branches by exact string

As a user, I would like to be able to filter branches by exact string in order to not have unwanted results returned. The fuzzy search can return too many matches. ...

Suggested by: James Maclean (20 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 01 Aug • Comments: 6

Under consideration

40 votes

Make Electron flags available for native Wayland support

As a user, I want the possibility to start GitKraken Client in a native Wayland client. At the moment, when I start the GitKraken Client in a hidpi environment under ...

Suggested by: Timo Bendziula (15 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 30 Sep • Comments: 5

Under consideration

39 votes

Add "pull all" function

I always need to pull the latest revision of several repos. It's very annoying to click through the tabs and press pull. Also I need to pull a "libs" submodule for ...

Suggested by: Oliver (18 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Sep • Comments: 4

Under consideration

39 votes

Color tabs

Add the option to add a custom color per repo tab so tabs can be easily distinguished.

Suggested by: Riccardo (06 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 10 Aug • Comments: 3

Under consideration

38 votes

Remember the GPG passphrase

Please add the ability to remember the GPG passphrase.

Suggested by: Aleksandr (23 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 14 Sep • Comments: 5

Under consideration

38 votes

Add i18n support

Add support for more languages in GitKraken.

Suggested by: Anotia (20 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 14 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

38 votes

Add option to disable auto-stash

For consistency with the git command line, I would like the option to disable GitKraken's auto-stash feature. If there are uncommitted changes, trying to change ...

Suggested by: Tim Bates (19 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

37 votes

Add option to wrap commit messages to 72 characteres

The commit message in GitKraken is limited to 1 line and 72 characters. As a user, I want the text to wrap if I have a longer message. This could even be made the ...

Suggested by: Nicolás Martínez (01 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 17 Aug • Comments: 2

Under consideration Quality of Life

36 votes

Merge Tool by File Type with Support for UnityYAMLMerge

Currently, there is only support for a single merge tool, which does not cater for different file types. As we work with Unity, for *.asset and *.prefab files Unity ...

Suggested by: Richard Coleman (02 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 4

Under consideration

36 votes

Spell checking: make it configurable and/or allow multiple languages

Spell checking should be independent from OS settings. It should be set to the language set in GitKraken, e.g. Windows 10 in German, GitKraken in English --> spell ...

Suggested by: Twoleeland (24 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 21 Sep • Comments: 2

Under consideration

36 votes

Searching for filenames across commits

I would like the facility to search for a particular filename, and highlight all commits that contain a modification to that file.

Suggested by: Derek Mason (05 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 10 May • Comments: 1

Under consideration

35 votes

Allow Code Comments on GitHub PRs

As part of my workflow, I review PRs every morning and I'd love the ability to highlight code chunks and add a comment to the highlighted code section like I can do ...

Suggested by: Lucas (21 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Sep • Comments: 3

Under consideration Integration

34 votes

Support Korean

Please support korean language. By far we love gitkraken's UIs and features, but we cannot search our commits because it does not support our language and this is ...

Suggested by: Travol (04 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 31 Aug • Comments: 8

Under consideration

34 votes

Ability to stage added and removed lines separately

When the diff pairs up the old and the new line, it is often impossible to stage just the correct change entirely in GitKraken. For example: - package_foo: 4.7 + ...

Suggested by: Roman (05 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 07 Sep • Comments: 4

Under consideration

34 votes

GitHub Enterprise Cloud Integration

As a user, I would like a GitHub Enterprise Cloud Integration in order to use features like Pull Request, Issues, etc with my GitHub Enterprise Cloud instance.

Suggested by: Joey Kelroy (21 Mar) • Upvoted: 25 Jul • Comments: 1

Under consideration

34 votes

Select mutiple lines at once in diff view

As a user using the diff view (before staging changes or resolving conflicts), I would like to select multiple lines at once (using drag-and-drop, shift-click or ...

Suggested by: Alexandre (02 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 15 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration Quality of Life

34 votes

As a Gerrit user I want to be able to push commits for review with the Push button

Please provide at least a very basic support for Gerrit workflow. As a Gerrit user I now have to execute all `push` commands from command line. Gerrit is a ...

Suggested by: Martin (18 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 18 Sep • Comments: 0

Under consideration

33 votes

When creating branch replace 'space' with configurable character

As a user when I create branch and giving it a name, when I press the space char it write underscore char. (right now the space character does nothing). This ...

Suggested by: Omri Sak (26 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 09 Aug • Comments: 9

Under consideration

33 votes

Add ability to disable pull request integration

Depending on security settings/preferences of an org on GitHub, it might be difficult to get authorization for Third Party OAuth apps. Due to this if you do not have ...

Suggested by: Steven R. (23 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 27 Sep • Comments: 9

Under consideration

33 votes

Add public Gitea to free version

I use Gitea from https://git.ggc-project.de to host some of my projects. Unfortunately, these are considered non-public by GitKranken. Unfortunately, I currently ...

Suggested by: Frankenstein91 (06 Feb, '22) • Upvoted: 21 Sep • Comments: 3

Under consideration

33 votes

Add support for ssh keys ecdsa-sh

GitKraken supports ecdsa ssh keys since 7.0.0, but it seems to not support ecdsa-sk keys (FIDO / Yubico-Yubikey)

Suggested by: Alexander Cerutti (27 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 20 Sep • Comments: 1

Under consideration

32 votes

Add setting to remove 2nd force push confirmation

When I push, and my remote branch is behind I click a red "Force Push" button. I'm greeted by a warning making sure I really want to do this and I have to click ...

Suggested by: Bela VanderVoort (28 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 29 Sep • Comments: 10

Under consideration

30 votes

Allow profile (ssh/gpg) selection per repository

Working with multiple tabs/projects and its frequent changes of multiple profiles is a nightmare. I'd like to have the possibility of assigning profile per ...

Suggested by: Marcin Bojko (07 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 8

Under consideration

30 votes

Allow repo to be included multiple times in workspaces

Workspaces have been added in the new release 8.2.0. However, currently it is not supported to include a repository multiple times in a single workspace. It would ...

Suggested by: Nico Mexis (14 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Jul • Comments: 6

Under consideration

30 votes

Improve support for Co-authors

GitHub has support for special annotations in commit messages to give credit to other co-authors who worked on the commit (see ...

Suggested by: Thibaud D. (15 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 3

Under consideration Integration Quality of Life

30 votes

Support for /info/exclude

GitKraken does not honor the exclusions in /info/exclude, which is a sort of per-clone .gitignore file that is itself not part of repository commits. Some ...

Suggested by: Nathan C. Sherman (18 Feb, '22) • Upvoted: 29 Sep • Comments: 2

Under consideration

29 votes

Unlicensed account owner

A GitKraken Owner role will always consume a license. I want to use the owner account for administrative purposes only, and have it not consume a license.

Suggested by: tyrsha (22 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 8

Under consideration

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