Refined GitHub

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.

Our hope is that GitHub will notice and implement some of these much-needed improvements. So if you like any of these improvements, please open a discussion on GitHub feedback or contact GitHub support about doing it.

GitHub Enterprise is also supported: How to enable it.

The GITHUB and REFINED GITHUB trademarks are owned by GitHub, Inc. and used under license.

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on Mac, iOS and iPadOS

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Highlights 🔥

Makes whitespace characters visible

Adds one-click merge conflict fixers

Shows how far behind a PR head branch is + tells you its base commit

Lets you hide every event except comments or unresolved comments in issues and PRs

Lets you subscribe to opening/closing events of issues in one click.

Adds the option to wait for checks when merging a PR

Adds a button to discard all the changes to a file in a PR

Select notifications by type and status

Repositories

File management

Code

Linkifies issue/PR references and URLs in code and conversation titles.
Enhances the y hotkey to also copy the permalink.
Linkifies symbolic links files.
Alerts you if the current file is altered by an open PR.
Reduces tabs’ size to 4 spaces instead of 8 where GitHub doesn't follow the user’s preferences.
Adds a keyboard shortcut to deselect the current line: esc.
Shows Markdown front matter as vertical table.
On branch commit lists, shows the PR that touches the current branch.

Writing comments

Reading comments

Conversations

Lets you open all visible conversations at once.
Makes the conversation list’s filters toolbar sticky.
Highlights conversations opened by you or the current repo’s collaborators.
In conversation lists, aligns the labels to the left, below each title.
🔥 Changes the default sort order of conversations to Recently updated.
Adds Everything you’re involved in and Everything you subscribed to filters 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 Projects and Milestones filters in conversation lists if they are empty.
Adds a shortcut to toggle all similar items (minimized comments, deferred diffs, etc) at once: alt click on each button or checkbox.
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.
Replaces the "opened" time with the "updated" time on pinned issues.
Changes the layout of pinned issues from side-by-side to a standard list.
Adds one-click buttons to remove labels in conversations.
Removes duplicate information in the header of issues and PRs ("User wants to merge X commits from Y into Z")
Dims commits and PRs by bots to reduce noise.
Adds a shortcut to cancel editing a conversation title: esc.
Hides the update time of conversations in lists when it matches the open/closed/merged time.
Links the "Contributor" and "Member" labels on comments to the author’s commits on the repo.
Adds a link to jump to the latest close event of a conversation.

Viewing pull requests

Editing pull requests

Commits

Tags and releases

Adds a download count next to release assets.
Adds a Releases tab and a keyboard shortcut: g r.
Adds a tags dropdown/search on tag/release pages.
Adds a keyboard shortcut to create a new release while on the Releases page: c.
🔥 Adds a link to changes since last tag/release for each tag/release.
Adds a button to convert a release to draft.
Adds a button to view the changelog file from the releases page.

Profiles

Newsfeed

Hides "starred" events for your own repos on the newsfeed.
Hides other inutile newsfeed events (commits, forks, new followers).
Automagically expands the newsfeed when you scroll down.

Notifications

Adds a button to open all your unread notifications at once.
Adds a shortcut to select all visible notifications: a.
Linkifies the header of each notification group (when grouped by repository).
Stops redirecting to notification inbox from notification bar actions while holding Alt.
Adds a link to the last page of notifications.

Global

🔥 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.
Renders `text in backticks` in issue titles, commit titles, and more places.
Adds shortcuts to navigate through pages with pagination: ← and →.
Lets you see how others are using the current Action in the Marketplace.
Shows all of Refined GitHub’s new keyboard shortcuts in the help modal (? hotkey).

Netiquette

Fixes for GitHub shortcomings

Removes the file hover effect in the repo file browser.
Removes unnecessary or redundant information from the repository sidebar.
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.
Adds a menu item to embed a gist via <iframe>.
Points the "View file" on PRs to the branch instead of the commit, so the Edit/Delete buttons will be enabled on the "View file" page.
Makes labels clickable on the dashboard.
Retries downloading images that failed downloading due to GitHub limited proxying.
Makes some dropdowns 1-click instead of unnecessarily 2-click.
Suggests fixing links that are wrongly shortened by GitHub.
Linkifies the username in the edit history popup.
Avoids creating duplicate PRs when mistakenly clicking "Create pull request" more than once.
Moves the "Convert PR to Draft" button to the mergeability box and adds visual feedback to its confirm button.
Prevents the merge panel from automatically opening on every page load after it’s been opened once.
Adds keyboard shortcuts to select items in command palette using ctrl n and ctrl p (macOS only).
Enables submission via ctrl enter on every page possible.

Previously part of Refined GitHub

GitHub took inspiration from Refined GitHub and natively implemented dozens of its features, 🎉 so they've been removed from this extension. You can also see all the past features of Refined GitHub in a single list.

Customization

Most features can be disabled if they are JavaScript-based 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.

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Omniscientxo/refined-github-1

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