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 a link to the default branch on directory listings and files

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

Select notifications by type and status

Repositories

File management

Adds a button to download entire folders, via https://download-directory.github.io.
Adds a button to edit files from the repo file list.
Enables the File Finder keyboard shortcut (t) on entire repository.
Shows the associated PRs on branches for forked repositories.
Adds a link to preview HTML files.
Highlights the most-recently-modified items in file lists.
Lets you see the previous version of a file in one click.

Code

Linkifies issue/PR references and URLs in code and issue/PR 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

🔥 Adds reaction avatars showing who reacted to a comment.
Embeds short gists when linked in comments on their own lines.
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 "N hidden items. Load more...", alt-clicking it will load up to 200 comments at once instead of 60.
Adds shortcuts to issues, PRs conversations, and PR file lists: j focuses the comment/file below; k focuses the comment/file above.
Informs you that there are hidden comments in the header of long issues. Also scrolls down to the hidden comments when pressing Cmd+F or Ctrl+F.

Conversations

Viewing pull requests

Editing pull requests

🔥 Uses the PR’s title as the default squash commit title and updates the PR’s title to match the commit title, if changed.
Adds an "Update branch" button to every PR. GitHub has the same feature, but it must be manually configured with protected branches.
Simplifies the PR review form: Approve or reject reviews faster with one-click review-type buttons.
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. Common branch names known to be long-lived are excluded (develop, release/*, etc)
Lets you create draft PRs and public gists in one click.
Clears the PR merge commit message of clutter, leaving only deduplicated co-authors.
Adds quick-review buttons to the PR sidebar, automatically focuses the review textarea, and adds a keyboard shortcut to open the review popup: v.
Uses the first commit for a new PR’s title and description.

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

Notifications

Global

Netiquette

Fixes for GitHub shortcomings

Removes the file hover effect in the repo file browser.
Removes unnecessary or redundant information from the repository sidebar.
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.
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.
While writing/editing comments, open the preview links in new tab instead of navigating away from the page.
Redirect to repo issue list when the search doesn‘t include is:pr.
Drops redundant "readme-ov-file" parameter from repo URLs.
Closes checks list when clicking outside of modal.
Linkifies the line numbers where GitHub forgot to add links.
Scrolls the file tree to the current file.

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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