Preferences

Last updated: May 2025

Navigate to Preferences in GitKraken Desktop to tailor your environment. Here’s what each major section controls.

Organization

This section is labeled with your organization’s name. It shows members and teams, and allows Owners and Admins to:

• Manage member roles
• Invite users and assign licenses
• Create and manage teams

General

Configure app-wide behavior like auto-fetch, conflict detection, and commit graph settings.

• Auto-Fetch: Set an interval (0–60 minutes); 0 disables auto-fetch.
• Auto-Prune: Removes stale remote-tracking references.
• Automatic Conflict Detection: GitKraken monitors for base branch conflicts.
• Keep Submodules Up to Date: Auto-update submodules after Git actions.
• Default Branch Name: Used when initializing new repos (default is main).
• Delete “.orig” Files: Control cleanup of merge backup files.
• Show All Commits in Graph: May affect performance on large repos.
• Initial Commits in Graph: Define max visible commits (minimum: 500).
• Lazy Load Commits: Loads more commits only as needed.
• Remember Tabs: Saves open tabs and profile context between sessions.
• Longpaths / AutoCRLF: Windows-only settings tied to global .gitconfig.
• Extended Logging: Toggle detailed activity logs from Help > Support Logs.
• Forget All Credentials: Clears stored usernames and passwords.
• Share Work-in-Progress: Enables visibility for teammates via the Team View.

Profiles

Store unique settings, tabs, and integrations per context. Useful for multi-account workflows.

Learn more about Profiles

SSH & Integrations

Control access and connections to remote repositories:

• SSH settings
• Git hosting integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Issue tracker integrations like Jira and Trello

GitKraken AI

Let GitKraken AI automate repetitive Git tasks to improve your efficiency.

External Tools

Configure your preferred editors, terminals, and diff/merge tools.

• External Merge Tool: View supported tools
• External Diff Tool: View supported tools
• External Editor: Choose from VS Code, Atom, Sublime, IntelliJ, or custom path
• Default Terminal: Launch from File > Open Terminal or Alt/Option + T
• Use Custom Terminal Command: Example for PowerShell: start "" "C:Program FilesPowerShell7pwsh.exe" -noexit -command "cd %d"

Notifications

Control product and marketing messages:

• Enable Desktop Notifications
• Receive Marketing and Help Notifications

UI Customization

Visual preferences for theming and commit graph display:

• Themes
• Notification location
• Date/time locale and formatting
• Author initials vs. avatars
• Graph metadata: branches, tags, author, commit message, SHA, etc.
• Hide Launchpad from the status bar

Commit Signing

Enable and configure GPG signing for commit verification.

Editor Preferences

Customize code and diff viewer:

• Font, size, tab spacing
• EOL characters
• Syntax highlighting
• Line numbers and word wrap

In-App Terminal

Adjust the appearance and behavior of GitKraken’s terminal:

• Font, size, line height, cursor
• Autocomplete behavior
• Default terminal for Windows

Experimental

Preview Experimental Features:

• Switch from NodeGit to Git binary (limited support)
• AI commit message generation

Repo-Specific Preferences

These apply only to the open repository:

• Encoding
• Gitflow
• Git Hooks
• LFS
• Commit settings
• Issues
• Team View
• Submodules

You can configure these uniquely per repository.