Gitkraken stuck at opening repo

Question

Every time I open gitkrarken it gets stuck at opening repo icon. I can\'t open/clone/init repo. I heard some others have the same problem but no one seems to know why this i

Answer 1

Check your project for large generated directories, like node_modules, which git isn't configured to ignore. If you don't tell git to ignore those (often very large) directories, Kraken will try to index them and will become overwhelmed by the task.

I had this problem too. Once I added the "node_modules" dir to the .gitignore file,

echo node_modules >> .gitignore

and restarted the Kraken client, it worked like a charm.