Getting Started with GitKraken — An Awesome Git GUI

3 min readOct 20, 2020

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First Things First

This Article is to help absolute Beginners help start using GitKraken, if you know the basics, it’s not for you, Thanks.

What is GitKraken Git GUI?

The GitKraken Git GUI is a cross-platform client for Windows, Mac, & Linux, simplifying complicated Git commands into drag-and-drop actions. GitKraken offers seamless integrations with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise. Resolve merge conflicts without leaving the app, and use GitHub Actions to create workflow automation.

What is GitKraken Boards?

GitKraken Boards provides a more productive way to track issues from inside the GitKraken Git GUI, a browser, mobile app, or inside of Atom or VS Code! GitKraken Boards syncs in real-time with GitHub Issues and GitHub Milestones. Link cards to GitHub pull requests, check PR/build statuses and auto-update cards from GitKraken Boards. Use GitHub Actions to automate your workflow.

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Pricing

Create Your Account by visiting this link. Did you know? GitKraken Pro Suite is free for students, check it out here at: GitKraken Pro Suite for Student

Set up GitKraken

GitKraken Welcome Screen on Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux)

Assuming you have created an account — Free or Pro, doesn’t matter, let’s jump right in there. Launch your GitKraken Application on your PC (Windows-Mac-Linux doesn’t matter). Create/Sign In to your account. You’ll be greeted with the following(or alike, depending on version) screen

Now depending on what you want to achieve, You can select any of the given options from the left panel of this screen. I’ll go with starting a new Repository with GitHub(you can choose GitLab,BitBucket or Azure DevOps — whichever you like to work on).

This is what your screen should resemble(after filling in the fields)

Adding some code in our local repository to see how it would react on GitKraken Client GUI.

The changes are detected, as you can see in the top right corner.

Our new commit will look like this in the view.

Oh NO! we made a mistake let’s git … undo this commit, by simply clicking the undo button

And these are just some of Amazing Stuff you can do via GitKraken. Did it help you kick start your GitKraken Journey? Consider applauding, it cheers me up!