Open GitKraken using the current repo directory in the cli.

gitkraken.zsh

## Open GitKraken using the current repo directory.
## For when you want a prettier view of your current repo,
## but prefer staying in the cli for most things.
## This will break if GitKraken ever removes the -p flag.
## If you're not using OSX, the path is definitely different.

kraken () {
	~/Applications/GitKraken.app/Contents/MacOS/GitKraken -p $(pwd)
}

# If you want a git alias, add the following to your git config under [alias]
kraken = !"~/Applications/GitKraken.app/Contents/MacOS/GitKraken -p $(pwd)"
# Now you can 'git kraken'!

I happened to typo this and found a workaround that works with GitKraken 7.1.0 - I added a blank ('', but can be anything) argument before the -p 'PATH'. I'm going to guess it has to do with argument parsing that GK is doing and they are stripping too many arguments before beginning parsing. My current git alias:

kraken = !open -na "GitKraken" --args '' -p "$(cd "${1:-.}" && git rev-parse --show-toplevel) && open -a GitKraken; :"

Thanks @karlwilbur, but one small gripe: this doesn't work for paths with spaces. This works, however:

alias kraken='eval "gitkraken --new-window -p \"`pwd`\" -l /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &"'

A small tweak in the end to bring GitKraken window on Focus

# Open GitKraken using the current repo directory in the cli and bring it on focus.
alias kraken='eval "gitkraken --new-window -p \"`pwd`\" -l /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &" && eval "wmctrl -R GitKraken"'
# Now you can 'kraken'!

The new url schema works better for me, I couldn't get any suggestions above to work with GitKraken 7.3.2.

So the idea is that GitKraken automatically installs an URI-schema handler in MacOS that handles URIs that start with gitkraken://

From the docs I learned that the first path component is a directive, so opening a repo is just the directive "repo", so if I have my repo at "/Users/myuser/git/InterestingGitRepo", the terminal command is plainly

open gitkraken://repo/Users/myuser/git/InterestingGitRepo

which opens my repo in a new tab in GitKraken.

So in terms of the aliases in this thread, you could use this:

# Open GitKraken using the current repo directory in the cli and bring it on focus.
alias kraken='open gitkraken://repo/$PWD' 

Thanks @hlynbech for that tip - I totally missed the gitkraken:// scheme. I've updated my ~/.gitconfig with the following:

[alias]
    kraken = !open "gitkraken://repo$(cd "${1:-.}" && git rev-parse --show-toplevel); :"

Note that it works regardless of the directory you are in, even if some subdir within your clone, and allows you to specify some other directory on the command line.

Thanks @hlynbech! I've tried a few things from this thread and yours was the only one that worked for me.

In case anyone coming from Google is wondering, I'm using MacOS Mojave and Zsh.

Yes, @hlynbech url scheme approach is working here too.

Slight update for anyone who cares - if you happen to have a subrepo or other git-repo inside of another repo this requires a slight fix to use the current working directory instead of just the root of the current repository, so this is my current alias:

  kraken = !open "gitkraken://repo$(cd "${GIT_PREFIX:-.}/${1:-.}" && git rev-parse --show-toplevel); :"

I liked Sourcetree's stree foo on Mac. Similarly krak opens a repo dir passed as arg:

krak () {
    dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$1")"; pwd -P)/$(basename "$1")"
    open gitkraken://repo/$dir
    }

Is there any way to open a folder in an already open instance of Gitkraken? I'm on Linux

I've ended up with this zsh alias, but, I guess, that would work elsewhere:

alias gk='(eval "gitkraken --new-window -p \"$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)\" -l /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &")'

It's based on solution from older commends, but:

• It uses ( and ) to hide the printing of PID process, thats printed by kernel if you use & — thats why I decided to write the comment.
• It uses --new-window to open repo, if gitkraken already launched somewhere.
• It uses git rev-parse --show-toplevel and not pwd to get repository right
• It uses black magic -l /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & to hide all the shit and logs.

@pablogs9 use --new-window. Yea, it's not that obvious.

--new-window works like charm!

@hlynbech

https://gist.github.com/dersam/0ec781e8fe552521945671870344147b#gistcomment-3453223

I made this Quick Action using your logic, it worked just fine

I will share to you the exported files:
Link: https://github.com/rbatty19/mac-os-automators/

more info:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70815538/open-with-shortcut-quick-action-for-vs-code-git-kraken

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64040393/open-a-folder-in-vscode-through-finder-in-macos

I added this to my .bashrc and it works like a charm in any directory inside a git repo you might be

function kraken() {
  open -na 'GitKraken' --args -p $(git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir)
}