Refined GitHub

Chrome extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features

We use GitHub a lot and notice many dumb 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 email GitHub support about doing it.

Read more in this blog post.

Highlights

• Mark issues and pull requests as unread (They will reappear in Notifications)
• Linkifies branch references in pull requests
• Linkifies issue/PR references in issue/PR titles
• Adds a 'Releases' tab to repos (g r hotkey)
• Adds user avatars to Reactions
• Adds a quick edit button to the readme
• Shows current filename in the sticky pull request header
• Adds blame links for parent commits in blame view
• Shows user's full name in comments
• Improves readability of tab indented code
• Adds a 'Copy' button to the file view
• Adds a shortcut to quickly delete a forked repo
• Adds ability to collapse/expand files in a pull request diff
• Adds option to view diffs without whitespace changes (d w hotkey)
• Adds links to patch and diff for each commit
• Differentiates merge commits from regular commits
• Easier copy-pasting from diffs by making +/- signs unselectable
• Shows the reactions popover on hover instead of click
• Supports indenting with the tab key in textareas like the comment box (Shift Tab for original behavior)
• Automagically expands the news feed when you scroll down
• Hides other users starring/forking your repos from the newsfeed
• Prompts you when pressing Cancel on an inline comment in case it was a mistake
• Moves the dashboard organization switcher to the right column
• Adds a Trending link to the global navbar. (g t hotkey)
• Removes annoying hover effect in the repo file browser
• Removes the comment box toolbar
• Removes tooltips
• Copy canonical link to file when the y hotkey is used

And lots more...

Screenshots

Dashboard

Repo

Reactions

Comment box

Install

Install it from the Chrome Web Store or manually.

Contribute

We're happy to receive suggestions and contributions, but be aware this is a highly opinionated project. We're not interested in adding options as it's a slippery slope into adding it for everything. Users will always disagree with something. That being said, we're open to discussing things.

Related

• Safari version
• Refined Twitter - Like this, but for Twitter
• Refined Wikipedia - Like this, but for Wikipedia
• Notifier for GitHub - Shows your notification unread count
• Hide Files on GitHub - Hides dotfiles from the file browser
• Show All GitHub Issues - Shows both Issues and Pull Requests in the Issues tab
• Contributors on GitHub - Shows stats about contributors
• Twitter for GitHub - Shows a user's Twitter handle on their profile page
• GifHub - Quickly insert GIFs in comments
• Octo Linker - Navigate across files and packages
• Awesome browser extensions for GitHub - Awesome list
• GitHub +1 - Shows total count of +1 comments and hides them
• OctoEdit - Markdown syntax highlighting in comments

Community tweaks

Stuff that didn't get included, but might be useful.

• Quickly edit files in the repo file browser

Customization

While this project is highly opinionated, this doesn't necessarily limit you from manually disabling functionality that is not useful for your workflow. Options include:

1. (CSS Only) Use a Chrome extension that allows injecting custom styles into sites, based on a URL pattern. Stylist is one such tool. Example

2. Clone the repository, make the adjustments you need, and load the unpacked extension in Chrome, rather than installing from the Chrome Store.

Created by

• Sindre Sorhus
• Haralan Dobrev
• Paul Molluzzo
• Andrew Levine
• Kees Kluskens
• Contributors…

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus