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Welcome to GitKraken's Feature Upvote ๐Ÿ‘‹ The GitKraken product team regularly moderates and references this board when planning upcoming release cycles. Be sure ...
Suggested by: Jonathan (02 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 1
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 ...
Suggested by: Han Joosten (26 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 28 Feb Comments: 88
Done

Native support for New Apple Mac M1 (Silicon) (ARM processor)

As a user, I want GitKraken to support the Mac M1 ARM processor.
Suggested by: Wilfred Lemus (19 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 09 Nov, '23 Comments: 73
Done

Support Worktrees ๐ŸŒฒ

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 ...
Suggested by: Jonathan (24 May, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 21
Under consideration

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 ...
Suggested by: Pierre-Luc (21 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 25 Jan Comments: 20
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Uwe Schneller (18 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '23 Comments: 7
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Daniel Demus (15 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 57
Planned

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 ...
Suggested by: torgo (25 Jun, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 36
Under consideration

Support partial stash

Sometimes it is helpful to stash only some files in a WIP instead of all of them. This would allow a user to select one or multiple files in the commit details panel ...
Suggested by: Giacomo Zanotti (30 Jun, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 14

Pin branch to left in the graph ๐Ÿ“Œ

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 ...
Suggested by: Max A (15 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 23
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
Suggested by: Tyson Williams (26 Jul, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 22
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 ...
Suggested by: Matt H (19 Jul, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 19
Under consideration

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 ...
Suggested by: Mortimer (29 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 28
Under consideration

Monthly plans

Ability to pay the subscription per month.
Suggested by: Oxi-onGit (20 Jul, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 36
Under consideration

AWS Code Commit Integration ๐Ÿ”—

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: - ...
Suggested by: Jonathan (24 May, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 26
Under consideration Integration

Implement git bisect ๐Ÿ”

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 ...
Suggested by: Jonathan (24 May, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 2
Under consideration

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 ...
Suggested by: Thibaud D. (15 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 24
Under consideration Quality of Life

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.
Suggested by: Adrian (03 Jan, '22) Upvoted: today Comments: 24
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`.
Suggested by: William Penton (Nexxuz) (23 Jul, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 38
Done

Ability to create aliases for repositories for easier recognition

Organization naming conventions sometimes make repo names very long or difficult to read. When users are interacting with such repos in GK, it would be helpful to ...
Suggested by: Jonathan (24 May, '21) Upvoted: 06 Sep, '23 Comments: 20
Done

Improve git LFS performance

Git LFS performance is super slow right now. Adding LFS to a repo that previously didn't have it slowed down ALL repo operations by 2-10x, depending on the operation. ...
Suggested by: Max A (08 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 13 Dec, '23 Comments: 43
Done

Option to disable submodule synchronization

Please provide a way to disable GitKraken's logic for keeping track of submodule changes while performing various actions, like rebasing, checking out branches, ...
Suggested by: Gage (23 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 29 Feb Comments: 11
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Chris (02 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 40
Under consideration

Conventional commits support

Support conventional commits (https://www.conventionalcommits.org) * Support for validation of commits * Support for initial commit to obey the specification
Suggested by: G.J.R. Timmer (16 Jul, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 29
Under consideration

Azure DevOps Server (TFS) Integration ๐Ÿ”—

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 ...
Suggested by: Alex Latham (10 May, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 33
Under consideration Integration

Support patch files

Git patch files store differences (diffs) that need to be applied to a file or a group of files on a user's system. As a user, I would like the ability to create ...
Suggested by: William Penton (Nexxuz) (08 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 26 Jul, '23 Comments: 3

Add git subtree support ๐ŸŒณ

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 ...
Suggested by: Gonzalo Calandria (15 Jun, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 13
Under consideration Git Functionality

Automatically use dark or light theme based on OS setting

I've gotten so used to automatic dark/white theme switching of apps based on time of day that macOS does that I kinda miss it in GitKraken ๐Ÿ˜
Suggested by: Jonathan (28 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 16 Apr, '22 Comments: 7
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Mark Hastings (16 Jun, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 9
Under consideration

GitKraken integration for JetBrains products.

Would much rather just have GitKraken baked into Intellij for example. Having boards and spaces also available in my ide accessible with a customisable keybind would ...
Suggested by: akat (15 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 7
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 ...
Suggested by: jeremy simmons (24 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 13
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Max Moldmann (07 Jul, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 15
Planned

Repository management on remote machine using SSH connection

I often work on servers via ssh connection and develop directly there (for example using VS-Code Remote Development using SSH: ...
Suggested by: Daniel Tar (11 Oct, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 3
Under consideration

Support for opening repos stored in WSL 2 from the Windows version of GitKraken Client

As a user, I would like GitKraken Client to support opening repos stored in WSL 2's file system from the Windows version of GitKraken Client. For current ...
Suggested by: Trevor (07 Feb, '23) Upvoted: today Comments: 10
Under consideration

Support in-app setting for date/time format ๐ŸŒ

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 ...
Suggested by: Jonathan (24 May, '21) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 33
Done

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. ...
Suggested by: Tom Piddock (19 Aug, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 24
Under consideration Git Functionality

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.
Suggested by: Stephen Oakman (18 Jun, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 10
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 ...
Suggested by: Vlad Sharanhovich (07 Oct, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 6
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
Suggested by: Pablo Laplace (19 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 9
Under consideration Integration

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 ...
Suggested by: Joey Kelroy (30 Jun, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 14
Under consideration

Custom External Editors

We really need a way to configure unsupported IDEs as external editors. I should be able to specify the executable path and arguments as well as interpolating the ...
Suggested by: Jonathan Pichรฉ (19 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 24
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 ...
Suggested by: Alex Latham (13 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 19 Mar Comments: 7
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Stefnotch (07 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 08 Mar Comments: 18
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 ...
Suggested by: Lindsay (30 Jun, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 21
Under consideration Quality of Life

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. ...
Suggested by: By-Jokese (16 Nov, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 23
Done

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 ...
Suggested by: Vincent Niehues (16 Jul, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 5
Planned Quality of Life

Add support for Azure DevOps in Workspaces

I was surprised not to see support for Azure since it's generally supported in GitKraken.
Suggested by: Ken Davidson (16 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 14 Dec, '22 Comments: 18
Done

Resolve conflicts with Ours or Theirs for file without opening diff

The tool in GitKraken for managing conflicts is cool when you are solving conflicts one by one. But sometimes I just want to use "Use all ours" or "Use all theirs" ...
Suggested by: Pavel Kutรกฤ (18 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 17
Done

Support for S/MIME

Currently only gpg signed commits are supported, but S/MIME is an alternative to this. Using `gpgsm` and git cli, it is straightforward to sign commits, i.e. simply ...
Suggested by: Lecris (04 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 04 Mar Comments: 3
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.
Suggested by: Glenn (20 Jul, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 10
Under consideration