Ask HN: Lightweight desktop client for managing pull requests?

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I'm frequently working on the go where I'll only have 1-2 bars of 4G/5G and the web UI for BitBucket is extremely slow.

I'm looking for a desktop app that would let me make and manage Pull Requests in Bitbucket from my local machine, without my web browser. Preferably free or with a lifetime purchase option. A quick search doesn't really turn up anything.

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I know that Jetbrains can do this inside the IDEs if you use Github, but I'm not sure if it also supports Bitbucket. Have you checked already?

There was also a VScode extension for something similar, but also for Github unfortunately.

It seems like it's also only for Github unfortunately

Shoot. Maybe GitKraken? It supports Bitbucket and it also supports PRs, but the documentation isn't super clear if it supports PRs on Bitbucket

I don't know if it's lightweight or not but I like the GitKraken app. I use it very occasionally when I need to do something advanced or tricky.

JetBrains PyCharm has this out of the box. VSCode has a nice extension [1]

1. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.v...

I haven't used it in years but you might want to check out Sublime Merge; it's from the developers of Sublime Text which is known for being lightweight and having good performance.

SM is a nice application, but Pull Requests aren't part of the vanilla Git model, and that is what SM is a GUI for.

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