faq.md

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How to compare two branches (or commits)?

Just select them (hold Ctrl/Cmd for multiselection)

I accidentally lost some commits

Use reflog to see lost commits

Do you plan to support Linux

No, we don’t plan to support Linux until a decent UI library (comparable to WPF or Cocoa) appears on this platform.

How can I commit and push?

Hold Ctrl/Alt when commit

Git doesn’t recognize my file as a text and Fork doesn’t show the diff

This may happen when a file is relatively small or in UTF-16 LE encoding. You can fix this by creating a rule (e.g. *.sql text) in .gitattributes file. (https://www.git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes)

How can I push multiple branches at once

Select them on the sidebar and call 'Push' from the context menu

Permission denied when accessing repos in my organization on GitHub

Ensure that Fork has access to your organization: https://github.com/settings/connections/applications/debde513eaa447b74d51

Receiving a "request requires higher privileges" error when trying to connect to GitLab with personal access token

Ensure the token provides access to the following scopes: read_api, and user_api

The main window is blank (Windows)

Most likely you are using VMWare which has a problem with hardware acceleration. You can disable it in Fork config: fork-dev/TrackerWin#491 (comment)

I can't initialize Git-Flow (Mac)

Probably you removed SourceTree recently and it broke your environment. fork-dev/Tracker#418 (comment)

I have a large repo and Fork shows only 50000 commits

You can configure the limit. On Mac run $ defaults write com.danpristupov.fork maxCommitCount 150000 in Terminal. On Windows edit the MaxCommitCount field in the %localappdata%\fork\settings.json file.