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I name my local repository folders project_name.git.

GitKraken does not like this convention. Local repositories stored in directory with .git suffix fail to open (the same repo works if i drop the .git suffix).

I have dozens of repositories locally, I'm not gonna rename them all. But i would love to keep using GitKraken, it's great.

Did anyone bump into this issue and find a workaround?

(I created a support ticket with them weeks ago, and never got an answer)

Marco
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project_name.git generally is the naming convention for bare repositories (repos without checked out files in a working tree, just the Git database).

That might be why GitKraken refuses to open such repositories: no working tree to work with.

Without renaming your folder, you might try, for testing, a symlink project_name (which is posible even on Windows) to the project_name.git folder, and see if GitKraken accepts to open project_name

VonC
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