Ability to manually select repositories for existing Azure workspaces created pre-9.4

3 votes

As a user, I would like the ability to be able to manually select repositories for an existing Azure workspace created pre-9.4, as I can do when creating one.

Without this functionality, I would need to create a new workspace for all my existing ones.

Under consideration Suggested by: Joey Kelroy (10 May, '23) • Upvoted: 12 Jul, '23 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

11 Jul, '23
Trevor Admin
Thank you for your feedback! GitKraken Client 9.6 has added the ability to create a manually managed Azure Workspace from one synced with an Azure Project. While this feature does not edit the existing Workspace, it will enable you to create one that has all of the existing Workspace's settings, shared users, and repos, with the opportunity to manually select the repositories you'd like to keep (or add) to the new Workspace before creating it.

For more details, you can visit our release notes: https://help.gitkraken.com/gitkraken-client/current/#version-9-6-0
12 Jul, '23
Chad
I can't help but point out that this still isn't truly complete. I expected full "CRUD" capability for Repos in a Workspace, and would think the same for any other Users trying to utilize this capability. Instead, the first iteration only allowed adding Repos on the Create of the Workspace, with no modifications to Repo list afterward. Now, we can Add Repos after initial creation, but there is no way to Remove a Repo from a Workspace once it's been added....aside from deleting the Repo from Azure DevOps. If for no other reason to remove a mistakenly added Repo, or for situations where a Team's Workspace may only need visibility of the Repo for a span of time, I think the ability to remove a previously added Repo is necessary. Otherwise, we're still functionally back to deleting and recreating a Workspace for any changes to the list of desired repos.
17 Jul, '23
Trevor Admin
Thanks, Chad - you can remove specific repos from a manually managed Azure DevOps Workspace. If you visit the Repositories tab in your Workspace, you can select the repos you'd like to remove, and a three dots menu icon will appear at the top of the list. Open that menu and select 'remove repos from Workspace'. Is that what you're interested in, or is there a specific case this would not work for you? You can visit this link to see where this action is: https://help.gitkraken.com/gitkraken-client/workspaces/#cloud-multi-repository-actions
Hope this helps, but let me know otherwise!
- Trevor