Support opening multiple repositories at once

[siegenthalerroger]

It would be great to be able to have multiple repositories opened in parallel (akin to the "workspaces" in vscode and intelliJ).

For example in my case I have multiple git repositories for different parts of our as-code deployment configurations (depending on what other people require access). I regularly have changes that are similar across all repositories and create an identical structure of stacked branches in each repo (e.g. maintenance/2024-12-). It would be really cool if we could have these stacked virtual branches shown as one group despite being multiple different repos in the background.

[Byron]

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Even though I would find it unlikely that GitButler could be changed to be able to support this, an alternative to that could be the ability to recreate a certain stack, along with its patches, in another repository using a (future) CLI maybe, or by exporting a file that can be imported into other repositories with the UI even.

That way it would be possible to achieve something similar with multiple Windows open. Please do let me know if I am missing a key point which wouldn't be covered by the approach I mentioned.
Thanks again.

[Rots]

Regardless of the fancy multi-repo approach described above I would appreciate if I could just open multiple independent instances (gitbutler windows) on different repositories. Currently it doesn't seem to be possible (only with the separate nightly installation, but then again limited to those two windows and it doesn't scale).

[Caleb-T-Owens]

@Byron wasn't part of the repo lock you added intended for supporting multiple gitbutler windows?