Open submodule into a new tab

53 votes

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

Under consideration Suggested by: OlivierB (19 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 11

Comments: 11

16 Feb, '22
Alexis
yes please
18 Feb, '22
Nathan C. Sherman
I don't know how many times I've closed the repo tab instead of the submodule. If you decide *not* to do this, at least stop renaming the repo tab to the submodule name.
22 May, '22
BenMack
GitFork has this feature and it's much much more intuitive than Kraken approach. I have to working concurrently on multiple submodules and this is a big reason why I haven't switch to GitKraken yet
04 Aug, '22
Marco Knol
In favor for this suggestion!
29 Oct, '22
Axel Heider Merged
Currently there seem no option to open a submodule in a new tab. Please add this feature.
02 Nov, '22
Chris Bowie Admin
"Button to open submodule in new tab" (suggested by Axel Heider on 2022-10-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Feb, '23
Josh
Yes please to this!!

In general gitkraken's support for submodule workflows isn't great....
30 May, '23
daniel Merged
Current behavior:
* User can Initialize an existing submodule on a repo from Submodules pane
* User can update/edit/delete and open once the submodule has been cloned
* User can not open the module on a new tab and keep parent repository opened on a different tab.
** After open a submodule, current tab is opening selected submodule on current tab, not letting the user browse parent repo or other submodules hanging from parent repo.

Desired functionality:
* once the submodule is initialized in a parent repo, provide in the "submodules" menu an additional "open (submodule) in a new tab" button.
** After clicking, parent repo, previously opened submodule and potentially more submodules, are opened in dedicated tabs, letting the user operate them as independent repos.
** when opening a submodule in a new tab, it's ok if traceability with parent repo is lost, since the goal here is just being able to open and operate submodules just as "another regular git repo"
30 May, '23
Joey Kelroy Admin
"open submodules in a new tab" (suggested by daniel on 2023-05-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Aug, '23
Jon
I do agree that this would be a good feature, but realistically, why can't you just open the sobmodule in a new tab by just clicking the plus icon on the tabs bar?
It would be a nice shortcut feature though!
23 Feb
O.H
That is something I really need, It is very annoying to open a submodule to see that it opens in the same tab of your main repo.