

Your personal fork of FreeCAD,, indicated by the red line in the screenshot.

The official FreeCAD repository, indicated by the green line in the screenshot. Remote indicates a remote repository, for example in GitHub In the screenshot you can see branches called editor_fixes and editor_fixes_typos The item is highlighted in green, meaning that the branch is currently active ( git checkout).Īny other branches on your local machine. Your local branch of the FreeCAD master branch, indicated by the blue line in the screenshot. This will push your Local master to your Remote origin masterįor more information consult the GitKraken Getting started guide.

In other words the URL to access your fork will be: This will clone the FreeCAD/FreeCAD repository to your own account. In Linux distributions, sometimes you can get it from the package manager. There are different ways to download GitKraken depending on your operating system. GitKraken is a proprietary program that is free to use for non-commercial use that runs on the Electron framework, which means it is cross platform and can be used the same in Linux, MacOS, and Windows. A graphical user interface (GUI) eases the learning curve. Although it is a complex system, you usually only need some background information on how it works, and to know a few terminal commands.
#Gitkraken cant open repo code
Git is a powerful revision control system commonly used to track computer code development.
#Gitkraken cant open repo pro
FreeCAD doesn't endorse GitKraken but we hope a guide like this one shows users how easy it is to set up the development environment and encourages more people to contribute.įor more information on general Git usage from the command line see Source code management, and the online Pro Git book.
#Gitkraken cant open repo software
GitKraken is proprietary software that is free to use for non-commercial use you don't need GitKraken to develop code for FreeCAD but many developers like it, and find it useful to manage their development. This document is a cursory introduction to GitKraken, a graphical user interface to Git. FreeCAD uses Git to manage its source code.
