Refined GitHub — Sindre Sorhus, Fregante

We use GitHub a lot and notice many annoyances we'd like to fix. So here be dragons.

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Repositories

• 🔥 Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name.
• Hides the Projects tab from repositories and profiles when it’s empty.
  • New projects can still be created via the Create new… menu.
• Hides forks and watchers counters.
• Changes the default sort order of milestones Closest due date.
• Adds useful links to the repository navigation dropdown and moves the "Security" and "Insights" tabs to it as well.
• Adds a keyboard shortcut to star/unstar the current repo: g s.
• 🔥 Adds a link to the default branch on directory listings and files.
• Adds a link to swap branches in the branch compare view.
• Adds a shortcut to your forks next to the Fork button on the current repo.
• Displays the age of the repository in the sidebar.
• 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.
• Clone a branch from the branches list.
• Points the “Forked from user/repository” link to current folder or file in the upstream repository.
• Makes some buttons on repository lists more compact to make room for other features.
• Automatically disables projects and wikis when creating a repository.
• Makes conversation sidebars and repository sidebars sticky, if they fit the viewport.
• Adds a link to visit the user’s github.io website from its repo.
• Shows the next scheduled time of relevant GitHub Actions in the workflows sidebar.
• Lets you delete your repos in a click, if they have no stars, issues, or PRs.
• Helps you find the most active forks, via useful-forks.github.io.

File management

• Adds a button to download entire folders, via 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 doesn’t work on git tags).
• Enables 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.
• Shows the associated pull requests on branches for forked repositories.
• When editing Markdown files, it lets you hide the Markdown diff in the preview.

Code

• 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.
• Shows Markdown front matter as vertical table.

Writing comments

• 🔥 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.
• Lets you edit any comment with one click instead of having to open a 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.)
• Uses a monospace font for all textareas.
• Adds a button to @mention a user in conversations.
• Adds a button in the text editor to quickly insert a simplified HTML table.
• Notifies the user of unfinished comments in hidden tabs.
• Wait for the attachments to finish uploading before allowing to post a comment.

Reading comments

• 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 conversations.
• 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 shortcuts to conversations and PR file lists: j focuses the comment/file below; k focuses the comment/file above.

and many more