Forked from here to support Addepar specific workflows.
Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
We use GitHub a lot and notice many annoyances we'd like to fix. So here be dragons.
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| Adds reaction avatars showing who reacted to a comment | Adds the option to wait for checks when merging a PR |
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| Linkifies issue/PR references and URLs in code | Adds button to revert all the changes to a file in a PR. |
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- 🔥 Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name.
- Adds a download count next to release assets.
- Removes the file hover effect in the repo file browser.
- Hides the placeholder text in repos without a description.
- Hides the
Projectstab from repositories and profiles when it’s empty.- New projects can still be created via the
Create new…menu.
- New projects can still be created via the
- Hides forks and watchers counters.
- Changes the default sort order of milestones
Closest due date. - Adds a
Releasestab and a keyboard shortcut: g r. - Adds a keyboard shortcut to create a new release while on the Releases page: c.
- Adds links to
Commits,Branches,Dependencies, andComparein a newMoredropdown. - Adds a keyboard shortcut to star/unstar the current repo: g s.
- Adds a tags dropdown/search on tag/release pages.
- 🔥 Adds a link to an automatic changelog for each tag/release.
- Adds link to the latest version tag on directory listings and files.
- 🔥 Adds link the default branch on directory listings and files.
- Adds link to swap branches in the branch compare view.
- Adds a shortcut to your forks next to the
Forkbutton on the current repo. - Adds the age of the repository to the statistics bar.
- In your forked repos, shows number of your open PRs to the original repo.
- Adds a link to access the past runs of a GitHub Action workflow when seeing the workflow configuration file.
- Points the “Forked from user/repository” link to current folder or file in the upstream repository.
- Replaces the labels of some simple buttons on repository filelists with icons, making them take less space.
- Adds a button to a download entire folders. Uses download-directory.github.io
- Adds a button to toggle the repo file list.
- Adds a button to edit files from the repo file list.
- Ensures that the “Edit readme” button always appears (even when you have to make a fork) and works (GitHub’s link does’t work on git tags).
- Enables the the File Finder keyboard shortcut (t) on Issues and Pull Request pages as well.
- Lets you start typing your search immediately after invoking the File Finder (t), instead of having you wait for it to load first.
- Preserves the search terms when navigating back and forth between the File Finder and the files.
- Clone a branch from the branches list.
- Shows the associated pull requests on branches for forked repository’s.
- Enhances the y hotkey to also copy the permalink.
- Adds a button to view the source of Markdown files.
- Adds a button to copy a file’s content.
- Linkifies symbolic links files.
- Shows PRs that touch the current file.
- Reduces tabs’ size to 4 spaces instead of 8.
- Adds a keyboard shortcut to deselect the current line: esc.
- Adds a link to preview HTML files.
- Lets you see how others are using the current Action in the Marketplace.
- Show Markdown front matter as vertical table.
- 🔥 Enables tab and shift+tab for indentation in comment fields.
- Adds a button to submit a single PR comment if you mistakenly started a new review.
- Adds a button to insert collapsible content (via
<details>). - 🔥 Auto-resizes comment fields to fit their content and no longer show scroll bars.
- Moves the
Edit commentbutton out of the...dropdown. - Adds a shortcut to edit your last comment: ↑. (Only works in the following comment field, if it’s empty.)
- Wraps selected text when pressing one of Markdown symbols instead of replacing it:
[`'"*~_ - Reduces the upload bar to a small button.
- Hides unnecessary comment field tooltips and toolbar items (each one has a keyboard shortcut.)
- Use a monospace font for all textareas.
- Adds shortcuts to conversations and PR file lists: j focuses the comment/file below; k focuses the comment/file above.
- Embeds linked gists.
- Adds links to browse the repository and linked files at the time of each comment.
- Adds the real name of users by their usernames.
- Shortens URLs and repo URLs to readable references like "_user/repo/.file@
d71718d". - 🔥 Previews hidden comments inline.
- 🔥 Highlights the most useful comment in issues.
- Hides reaction comments ("+1", "👍", …) (except the maintainers’) but they can still be shown.
- Limits the height of tall code blocks and quotes.
- Simplifies the UI to hide comments.
- Makes the "comment" icon in issue lists link to the latest comment of the issue.
- On long conversations where GitHub hides comments under a "Load more...", alt-clicking it will load up to 200 comments at once instead of 60.
- 🔥 Adds a button to open multiple conversations at once in your repos.
- Separates issues from PRs in the global search.
- Makes the conversation sidebar sticky.
- Makes the conversation list’s filters toolbar sticky.
- Highlights conversations opened by you or the current repo’s collaborators.
- Aligns labels in lists to the left.
- 🔥 Changes the default sort order of conversations to
Recently updated. - Adds
Everything commented by youandEverything you subscribed tofilters in the search box dropdown. - Adds filters for conversations in your repos and commented on by you in the global conversation search.
- 🔥 Hides empty sections (or just their "empty" label) in the conversation sidebar.
- Hides
ProjectsandMilestonesfilters in conversation lists if they are empty. - Allows the ↑ and ↓ keys to cycle "popover lists" (labels, milestones, etc).
- Adds a shortcut to toggle all similar items (minimized comments, deferred diffs, etc) at once: alt click on each button or checkbox.
- Adds a button to
@mentiona user in conversations. - Lets you toggle between is:open/is:closed/is:merged filters in searches.
- Adds a "Bugs" tab to repos, if there are any open issues with the "bug" label.
- Adds the updated time to pinned issues.
- Changes the layout of pinned issues from side-by-side to a standard list.
- Adds link to non-PR commit when visiting a PR commit.
- Adds Checks and Draft PR dropdown filters in PR lists.
- Shows color-coded review counts in PR lists.
- Shows the base branch in PR lists if it’s not the default branch.
- Hides the
Checkstab if it’s empty, unless you’re the owner. - Hides inactive deployments.
- Adds duplicate commit navigation buttons at the bottom of the
Commitstab page. - Preserves the "ignore whitespace" setting when navigating with Next/Previous in PR review mode.
- Bypasses the "Checks" interstitial when clicking the "Details" links on a PR Checks added by third-party services like Travis.
- Opens the Checks "details" link in a new tab.
- Adds comment indicators when comments are hidden in PR review.
- Shows which PRs have conflicts in PR lists.
- Adds diff stats on PR commits.
- Adds a line-through to the deleted branches.
- Mark/unmark multiple files as “Viewed” in the PR Files tab. Click on the first checkbox you want to mark/unmark and then
shift-click another one; all the files between the two checkboxes will be marked/unmarked as “Viewed”. - Shows the first Git tag a merged PR was included in.
- Jumps to first non-viewed file in a pull request when clicking on the progress bar.
- 🔥 Uses the PR’s title as the default squash commit title and updates the PR’s title to the match the commit title, if changed.
- Adds button to update a PR from the base branch to ensure it builds correctly before merging the PR itself. GitHub only adds it when the base branch is "protected".
- Simplifies the PR review form: Approve or reject reviews faster with one-click review-type buttons.
- Warns you when creating a pull request from the default branch, as it’s an anti-pattern.
- Warns you when unchecking
Allow edits from maintainers, as it’s maintainer-hostile. - Adds keyboard shortcuts to cycle through PR tabs: g ← and g →, or g 1, g 2, g 3 and g 4.
- Automatically deletes the branch right after merging a PR, if possible.
- Lets you create draft pull requests in one click.
- Clears the PR merge commit message of clutter, leaving only deduplicated co-authors.
- Adds a review button to the PR sidebar, autofocuses the review textarea and adds a keyboard shortcut to open the review popup: v.
- Use the first commit for a new PR’s title and description.
- Adds a keyboard shortcut to ignore the whitespace in diffs: d w.
- Adds links to
.patchand.difffiles in commits. - Adds link to view the raw version of files in PRs and commits.
- Adds one-click buttons to change diff style and to ignore the whitespace.
- 🔥 Enhances files’ commit lists navigation to follow file renames.
- Adds links to the file itself in a file’s commit list.
- Widens the
Expand diffbutton to be clickable across the screen. - Hides diff signs (since diffs are color coded already.)
- Suggest limiting commit titles to 72 characters.
- Expands the entire file when you alt click on any "Expand code" button in diffs.
- Displays the corresponding tags next to commits.
- Marks merge commits in commit lists.
- When exploring blames,
Alt-clicking the “Reblame” buttons will extract the associated PR’s commits first, instead of treating the commit a single change.
- Shows the followers you have in common.
- Tells you whether the user follows you.
- Adds a link to the user’s public gists.
- Marks private organizations on your own profile.
- Adds a keyboard shortcut to visit your own profile: g m.
- Adds a link to the user’s most starred repositories.
- Hides forks and archived repos from profiles (but they can still be shown.)
- Linkifies the user location in their hovercard and profile page.
- Shows the user local time in their hovercard (based on their last commit).
- Hides the
Packagestab on user profiles if it’s empty. - Adds a link to the issues and pulls on the user profile repository tab and global search.
- 🔥 Condenses the events to take up less space and uncollapses "User starred X repos" groups.
- Hides "starred" events for your own repos.
- Hides other inutile events (commits, forks, new followers).
- Automagically expands the newsfeed when you scroll down.
- 🔥 Adds possible related pages and alternatives on 404 pages.
- Adds a keyboard shortcut to open selection in new tab when navigating via j and k: shift o.
- Automatically closes dropdown menus when they’re no longer visible.
- Moves the "Marketplace" link from the black header bar to the profile dropdown.
- Renders text in
`backticks`in issue titles, commit titles and more places. - Adds a
Trendinglink to the global navbar and a keyboard shortcut: g t. - Adds shortcuts to navigate through pages with pagination: ← and →.
- Adds button to open all your unread notifications at once.
- Shows all of Refined GitHub’s new keyboard shortcuts in the help modal. (? hotkey)
- Stops redirecting to notification inbox from notification bar actions while holding Alt.
- The first tab space in file diff appears 2 spaces shorter than it should be.
- Hides the milestone sorter UI if you don’t have permission to use it.
- Linkifies branch references in "Quick PR" pages.
- Removes the autocomplete on search fields.
- Removes tooltips from self-explanatory buttons.
- 🔥 Moves the "Recently-pushed branches" widget to the header to avoid content jumps. Also adds it to more pages in the repo.
- Adds a menu item to embed a gist via
<iframe>. - Preserves the current line on “View blame prior to this change” links.
- Points the "View file" on compare view pages to the branch instead of the commit, so the Edit/Delete buttons will be enabled on the "View file" page, if needed.
- Makes labels clickable in the dashboard’s "Recent activity" box.
- Retries downloading images that failed downloading due to GitHub limited proxying.
- Makes some dropdowns 1-click instead of unnecessarily 2-click.
- Linkifies the header of each notification group (when grouped by repository).
- Suggests fixing your PR Commit links before commenting. GitHub has a bug that causes these link to appear as plain commit links, without association to the PR.
- Aligns the repository header to the repository content on wide screens.
- Linkifies the username in the edit history popup.
GitHub implemented dozens of features that used to be part of Refined GitHub 🎉
See list
- Blog post: Blame parent commits in blame view.
- Blog post: Collapse/expand files in a PR diff.
- Blog post: Preview a issue/PR reference’s title in comments.
- Blog post: The dashboard organization switcher is moved to the right column.
- Blog post: Quickly edit a repository’s README from the repository root.
- Blog post: Access
Your repositoriesfrom the profile dropdown. - Blog post: Permalinked comments are highlighted.
- Blog post: Leave a single comment in pull request diffs instead of starting a review by pressing shift enter.
- Blog post: Quickly delete a file from pull requests.
- Blog post: Pressing
Cancelon an inline comment opens a prompt to prevent accidental cancelling. - Blog post: The
+and-signs in diffs are made unselectable for easier copy-pasting. - Blog post: Toggle all outdated PR comments or PR/commit files with alt click.
- Blog post: Avoid opening duplicate issues thanks to the list of possibly-related issues.
- Blog post: Copy the path of a PR file.
- Blog post: Search a user profile page when visiting it.
- Blog post: Access the
LabelsMilestonesnavigation from individual milestone pages. - Blog post: The comments of who opened an issue/PR are marked with
Original Posterlabel. - Blog post: Quickly delete a forked repo after its pull request has been merged.
- Blog post: Exclude PR/issue filters from their list with alt click.
- Blog post: File headers are always visible.
- Blog Post: Linkify branch names in pull requets.
- Blog post: Adds link to an issue’s closing commit or pull request. 1 2
- Blog post: Adds
co-authored-byto the commit when merging PRs with multiple committers. - Blog post: Makes it easier to tell apart commits added to the current PR versus plain commits that reference the PR.
- Blog post: Widens the discussion search box.
- Blog post: Hides the
Packagestab in repositories and user profiles if it’s empty.
Most features can be disabled if they are JavaScript-based (Experimental) and you can override our CSS with your own in the extension options.
We're happy to receive suggestions and contributions, but be aware this is a highly opinionated project. There's a high bar for adding features. Users will always disagree with something. That being said, we're open to discussing things.
Read the contribution guide and join the contributors!
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Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
