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

I just had the same problem. I found that my .git/logs/HEAD had a bad entry (don't know how that happened nor why gitg and the git CLI both ignored the issue). Totally a problem with my repo, not GitKraken.

More detail...

To figure this out, I cloned the repo into a separate directory and meld'd them to see what was different. I opened GitKraken to this new clone; all's well. I then started copying things over from the old repo directory to the new one (objects, refs, logs, etc.). Once I copied that log file over, GitKraken went back to the "Opening repo" message.

Digging deeper into that log file I found a bad line. I was able to determine from the context how to re-create that bad line. Once I fixed it, GitKraken was happy.