Refined GitHub updates

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Refer to #3543 for updated content.

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• Automatically closes modals when they’re no longer visible
• Shows all keyboard shortcuts in the help modal (? hotkey)
• Adds links to the default branch and to the latest semver release
• Adds Commented button to Issues/Pull Requests page
• Highlight closing PRs in open issues and PRs
• Show latest tag in latest release button

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• Open multiple issues at once in your repos.
• Possibly-related issues are shown when creating a new issue.
• Merged PRs show the closing commit in the header.
• Permalinked comments are highlighted. Example on this page.
• Add your own custom CSS to GitHub without having to install Stylish.
• Inactive deployments in PR timelines are hidden.

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• GitHub has implemented many of Refined GitHub's features natively through their Paper Cuts initiative. 🎉
• Refined GitHub with GitHub Enterprise now works on Firefox.
• 404 pages are now more useful.
• Navigate with arrow keys through pages with navigation.
• User profile contribution activity automagically expand when you scroll down.
• Useless comments are now hidden.
• You'll now see a badge on a user's profile if they follow you.
• Forks are hidden from a user's Repositories list (but they can still be shown).
• Filter PRs that you haven't submitted a review for.
• Followers you know are shown on profile pages.

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• Refined GitHub was rewritten in TypeScript.
• Add co-authors when merging PRs with multiple committers. e0bce6f
• Insert collapsible content when writing comments (via <summary>). 547795c
• Your issues and PRs are highlighted in the issue/PR list. 681bf2c
• Search for issues and PRs separately in the global search. abebd9f
• Star/unstar a repository by pressing g s. 9eb93b1
• Bypass the "Checks" page and go directly to the Travis build when clicking the "Details" links on a PR 5c45ccb
• Exclude PR/issue filters from their list with alt/option-click. 07b2472
• Find a user’s most starred repositories in their profile. 483dc65
• The PR/issues search box expands when focused. 29faf28
• Significant head and base branches are shown in the PR list. f25483f
• GitHub has implemented even more of Refined GitHub's features natively through their Paper Cuts initiative.

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• Fix merge conflicts in a click ← #1882
• Follow file renames in commits lists ← #1870
• View the source of Markdown files ← #1873
• Hidden comments are previewed inline ← #1755
• Change diff style and whitespace visibility in one click ← #1799
• Press esc to deselect the current line when viewing files ← #1878
• Comment boxes expand with their content and no longer show scroll bars ← #1871
• Edit comments in one click ← #1880
• Your issues and PRs are highlighted ← #1782
• Insert collapsible content when writing comments (via <details>) ← #1804
• Forks and watchers counters are hidden ← #1820
• Text wrapped in `backticks` in issue titles is highlighted ← #1872
• The Projects tab is hidden from repositories and profiles when there are no projects. #1788
• A warning appears when trying to create a PR from the default branch ← #1758
• Links to an issue's closing commit, not just pull request ← #1832
• Diff signs are hidden ← #1866
• The PR/issues search box is wider ← #1886
• Tall code blocks and quotes are limited in height ← #1146
• Search for issues and PRs separately in the top search ← #1738
• Access Commits and Branches from the More dropdown ← #1825

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• See an automatic changelog for each tag or release. ← #1998
• Update a PR from the base branch to ensure it build correctly before merging the PR itself (same-repo branches only). ← #1950
• Update the PR’s title to the merge commit title, if changed. ← #1960
• Edit files straight from a repo’s list by clicking their icon. ← #1939
• Filter pull requests by their build status. ← #1904
• Browse a repository at the time of each comment, including each link. ← #1863
• Search or select tags from a dropdown in the Releases page. ← #1896
• The checks tab in PR is removed unless you're owner ← #1929
• View the raw version of files in PRs and commits. ← #1924
• Hide milestone sorter UI if you don’t have permission to use it. ← #1980
• SVG files in a PR default to rich-diff view. ← #1932
• Link to file itself in the history pages ← #2000
• Empty sections in the issue/PRs sidebar are hidden or collapsed. ← #2011

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• Open issues to the latest comment by clicking the comments icon. ← #2028
• Wrap code inside all code blocks to match indentation. ← #1989
• The most useful comment in issues is highlighted. ← #2108
• Download count is shown next to release assets. ← #2027
• Projects and Milestones filters are dropped if they are empty. ← #2114
• Cycle "popover lists" (labels, milestones, etc) when selecting them with the ↑ and ↓ keys. ← #2140
• Add upload button to the comment toolbar and remove the upload message. ← #2157
• Limits the length of commit fields to 72 characters ← #2115

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July 2019

• Linkifies symbolic links files. ← #2277
• 🔥 Shows whitespace characters. ← #2073
• Shows PRs that touch the current file. ← #2197
• Adds a button to submit a single PR comment if you mistakenly started a new review. ← #2188
• Adds a shortcut to your forks next to the Fork button on the current repo. ← #2153

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August 2019

• Hide unnecessary tip on comment field ← #2375
• Adds comment indicators when comments are hidden in PR review. ← #2320
• Adds button to revert all the changes to a file in a PR. ← #2182
• Hides the Packages tab in repositories if it’s empty. ← #2301

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September 2019

• Expands the entire file when you alt click on any "Expand code" button in diffs. ← #2434
• Adds a menu item to embed a gist via <iframe>. ← #2347
• Adds a shortcut to toggle all similar items (minimized comments, deferred diffs, etc) at once: alt click on each button or checkbox. ← #2087
• Makes it easier to tell apart commits added to the current PR versus plain commits that reference the PR. ← #2415
• Retries downloading images that failed downloading due to GitHub limited proxying. ← #2393

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October 2019

• Preserves the current line on “View blame prior to this change” links. ← #2481
• Lets you create draft pull requests in one click. ← #2486

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November 2019

• Shows the user local time in their hovercard (based on their last commit). ← #2549
• Adds the age of the repository to the statistics bar. ← #2560
• Linkifies the user location in their hovercard and profile page. ← #2544
• Makes labels clickable in the dashboard’s "Recent activity" box. ← #2513
• Points the "View file" in PRs to the branch instead of the commit, so the Edit/Delete buttons will be enabled on the "View file" page, if needed. ← #2529
• Adds a link to preview HTML files. ← #2505
• Shows which PRs have conflicts in PR lists. ← #2310

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December 2019 - January 2020

• Lots of small refinements of existing features
• Adds a button to @mention a user in discussions. ← #2556
• "Requested changes" in PRs now have a friendlier color. ← #2611

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February 2020

• On long discussions where GitHub hides comments under a "Load more...", alt click will load all the comments at once instead of part of them. ← #2754
• Adds a "Bugs" tab to repos, if there are any open issues with the "bug" label. ← #2750
• Lets you toggle between is:open/is:closed/is:merged filters in searches. ← #2745
• latest-tag-button now tells you whether the default branch matches the latest published version. ← #2771

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March 2020

• Marks merge commits in commit lists. ← #2832
• Adds the updated time to pinned issues. ← #2795
• In your forked repos, shows number of your open PRs to the original repo. ← #2880
• Clone a branch from the branches list. ← #2896
• When exploring blames, Alt-clicking the “Reblame” buttons will extract the associated PR’s commits first, instead of treating the commit a single change. ← #2881

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April 2020

• Adds a link to the issues and pulls on the user profile repository tab and global search. ← #2981
• Clears the PR merge commit message of clutter, leaving only deduplicated co-authors. ← #3003
• Adds a link to access the past runs of a GitHub Action workflow when seeing the workflow configuration file. ← #3011
• Lets you see how others are using the current Action in the Marketplace. ← #3033
• 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”. ← #3007

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May 2020

• Linkifies the header of each notification group (when grouped by repository). ← #3048
• Stops redirecting to notification inbox from notification bar actions while holding Alt. ← #3036
• Makes some dropdowns 1-click instead of unnecessarily 2-click. ← #3050
• Removes redundant user/repo from notifications when being grouped by repository ← #3051
• 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. ← #3085
• Shows the associated pull requests on branches for forked repository’s. ← #3116
• Only show comments-time-machine-links after visiting the link ← #3135

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Each release now includes a changelog 🎉

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