Last updated: June 2025

GitKraken Workspaces allow you to create easily accessible groups of repositories, take action across multiple repos, view details about their state at a glance, and share them with your team.

Access Your Workspaces

To access the Repo Management tab:

Cloud Workspaces

Cloud Workspaces are accessible from any machine and can be shared with selected teams in your organization. They allow for multi-repository actions and centralized pull request management.

Watch the overview:

Create a Cloud Workspace

Perform Multi-repository Actions

To take action across multiple repositories:

More options are available via the ellipsis menu.

View Pull Requests in Launchpad

Access open pull requests for all repositories in a Workspace directly from Launchpad .

Local Workspaces

Create a Local Workspace

To create a Local Workspace:

To automatically add all repositories in a selected folder, enable the Sync with local directory option.

Perform Multi-repository Actions

You can take actions across multiple repositories within a Local Workspace:

Convert a Local Workspace to a Cloud Workspace

To enable sharing and enhanced visibility:

Edit a Workspace

To edit a Workspace, click the ellipsis next to the Workspace name.

Hide a Workspace

Hide a Workspace to reduce clutter. Hidden groups (e.g., Recents, Favorites) can be shown again using the icon.

Select/Unselect Repositories

Manually select repositories for targeted multi-repo actions like Fetch or Pull.

Open/Clone/Locate Repositories

Open repositories in GitKraken Desktop or your preferred editor. You can also clone or locate repositories within the file system.

Edit Workspace Details

Customize your Workspace’s name, color, description, and access permissions.

Change Workspace Color

Use color to visually organize and prioritize Workspaces. Select Change color from the three-dot menu.

Reorder Workspaces

Drag and drop Workspaces to arrange them in the desired order.

Use Insights to Visualize Pull Request History

GitKraken Insights helps you understand how pull requests are merged into your repositories. It provides:

A visual history of your repository’s development

Insight into pull request trends and team workflows

Support for GitHub.com, Bitbucket.org, GitLab.com, and Azure DevOps (Hosted)

To launch GitKraken Insights:

Open a Cloud Workspace.

Click the Insights icon in the upper-right of the Workspace header.

This will open a new browser tab showing insights for that Workspace on GitKraken.dev .

For more details, visit the GitKraken.dev Insights documentation .

Azure DevOps Requirements for Insights

To use Workspaces and Insights with Azure DevOps:

You must enable Third-party application access via OAuth in Azure.

Navigate to Organization Settings > Policies in your Azure DevOps dashboard.

Learn more from Microsoft’s official guidance: Change application connection & security policies for your organization .

Workspace Changelog

Take a trip down memory lane, and see how Workspaces have evolved over time.

Version Highlight