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Description

Desktop Git clients are often used. @mydigitalself even made a Chrome plugin to support them in GitLab. I think we should ship that out of the box.

Proposal

Add an open in X button that is user configurable to each project.

By default we should set this to Tower (? arguably the best Git Client around, but not free), but it should be configurable per user between either of:

  • Tower
  • GitHub Desktop
  • Atlassian Sourcetree
  • Kraken
  • Tortoise Git
  • ? (I'm sure the community will contribute more)

Links / references

@mydigitalself what do you think?

Documentation blurb

(Write the start of the documentation of this feature here, include:

  1. Why should someone use it; what's the underlying problem.
  2. What is the solution.
  3. How does someone use this

During implementation, this can then be copied and used as a starter for the documentation.)

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