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GitKraken Client

  • free for personal use , but with limitted features only, these should be ok for the home programmer
  • can use different providers (such as git and svn etc) and self hosted repo’s
  • but the free version is anoying with private repo’s , only plays nice with public repo’s

install

wget https://release.gitkraken.com/linux/gitkraken-amd64.deb
# sudo apt install gitkraken-amd64.deb   #nope
sudo apt install ./gitkraken-amd64.deb

do not install using the LXM right deb pack mgr > install package
this is fine if no dependencies need to be resolved , but can freeze when there are dependencies

GitKraken Client data is stored in  /home/{user}/.gitkraken
make a symlink
GitKraken Client data = config data , not the actual repos

GitKraken uses a SSH certificate to establish trust communications between github and gitkraken