Ability to create aliases for repositories for easier recognition

223 votes

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 allow users to create aliases for repositories that are easier to recognize, easier to find in tabs, etc.

Done Suggested by: Jonathan (24 May, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Sep, '23 • Comments: 20

Comments: 20

15 Jun, '21
Daniel Demus
An alternate suggestion is to enable grouping on other that /. Most organisations that are not in chaos have some naming pattern.
20 Jun, '21
Paul Schulze
In my case, repositories are always checked out in a directory called "Source" by convention, as there are multiple local directories for builds and the like located besides them. This results in all my (currently 8) tabs essentially being called "Source". Now consider, that I am working with multiple 25+ GB repositories (Unreal Engine, multiple game projects and so on), making it really, really painful to switch repositories via tabs. I essentially have to close the tabs when I'm done and reopen them via the open dialog to have direct control!
10 Aug, '21
Jonathan Brenner
Our company also has a standardized naming convention for our projects which leads to each tab having the same text. The only way to tell which is which is to hover and wait for the tooltip to show the path or switch tabs and examine the commits. It would be nice to be able to change the text on the tabs or give the repo a friendly name that could be used instead of the name of the repo's parent folder.
17 Aug, '21
Chris Allen
This is one of the main things that I feel GK is missing. Currently I have to hover over the recent repos and wait till the path popup appears. I have a lot of repos that are just called 'public_html' and it would be great to be able to rename them.
17 Aug, '21
Chris Hodge
In my case, I am working on multiple clones of the same repo. I'm a tech artist - so a lot of my work is separated out prior to merging pieces back into master branch. It's a challenge to know which tab is which at the moment from a glance. I have to open each tab and see which branch is checked out. +1 for aliases (or just being able to alter a tab name)
01 Oct, '21
Marek Merged
Ability to rename project tab name.

Sometimes projects have exact same name of folders inside (and they can't be changed) and GitKraken takes name of main directory/folder as tab name which is confusing, because there might be 10 tabs with same name and it is hard to find correct project.
03 Nov, '21
Mykhailo Romaniuk Merged
I was going to submit the same proposal ))))
Maybe an alternative option to fix this issue can be a grouping of tabs (similar way Chrome is doing this)? (Just an idea)
02 Dec, '21
alex.latham@gitkraken.com Admin
"Project Tab Name [rename option support]" (suggested by Marek on 2021-10-01), including upvotes (17) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
07 Dec, '21
Andrew Peacock
Another vote for this. I have multiple apps using the same approach - a node API and a Vue front-end. The issue is that each paired API and UI is in a single named folder for the project (eg, ProjectName/api and ProjectName/app), but the git repos are at the app and api level. As a result, if I have multiple projects open, I have multiple folders all called "app" and "api"
08 Dec, '21
Diederik Koerselman
Please, please give us an alias option
17 Dec, '21
Mateusz Merged
I work with many repositories with different clients. I use 'profiles' features but still for each profile I have many repositories opened in tabs. In this scenario it is hard to read name of tab if there is a lot of them opened and they have long names (see screenshot – 1st part).
1. Let user to set custom name for repo – he can use some shorter name, then tabs will be more readable (see screenshot – 2nd part).
17 Dec, '21
Jonathan Admin
"Allow repositories tabs to have custom displaynames" (suggested by Mateusz on 2021-12-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
14 Feb, '22
Aron
This would be great, as we have multiple products which contain a 'utilities' repository, which now all show up as multiple tabs of 'utilities' in the list.
14 Feb, '22
jalxp
This please. Even just being able to change the name with which the tabs on top are displayed would be a great help. I always have to hover on them to check.
27 Feb, '22
Thomas
Any update on this?
Same problem, this is a true pain.
Other tools allow this easily.

The biggest pain is that the repo name does not match the actual gitlab repo name :(
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03 Mar, '22
aJava Merged
when I do multiple projects, it makes me confused.
Suppose that two or more repositories are consist as following.

Repo #1 : [root path] / [path1] / [git repo #1 cloned as "source" ]
Repo #2 : [root path] / [path2] / [git repo #2 cloned as "source" ]

And then the 'TITLE TAB' of gitkraken show the same title as attached file.

So, Could you add features like 'alias title' ? to indicate more clearly.

thanks.
08 Mar, '22
Jonathan Admin
"features for title alias" (suggested by aJava on 2022-03-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Apr, '22
Clare
I would really like to be able to change the label of repos. I've just started using gitkraken after using sourcetree for years, where I could label my repos however I wanted. All my repositories are in a root directory with the same name - the project name is in an ancestor directory - so I always have to look at the path to see which repo is which.
18 May, '22
Greg
I'm keen to see this feature. All our repo's are checked out into a "www" folder. So when we have multiple repo's open, we can't tell easily which one is which.
14 Jun, '22
Jonathan Admin
Repo and Terminal Tab aliases are now available in v8.6!

Please visit our release notes for full details:
https://support.gitkraken.com/release-notes/current/#version-860