05.2023
webdev
git
gitkraken

Quicker way to open new repo in GitKraken

You'll need to find a new hobby for all that saved time.

TLDR;

gitkraken -p .

How did we get here?

My most common path to start a new project is this:

npx init something
cd something
npm install
git init
git add .
git commit -m init
webstorm .
# Manually open repo in GitKraken clicking through multiple directories
# because for some reason I didn't think that there should be faster
# and more efficient way to do it.

So naturally I tried

gitkraken .

And it opened, but it was not the repo I wanted to open. It was the most recent one.
So after typing gitkraken -h and getting really curious what -nexxuz does.

Spoiler: It's cool.

I stumbled upon:

-p, --path     Open the repository specified by path.

So my final "multiple clicks" step was replaced with:

gitkraken -p .

I should go,

Krystian