Last Updated: February 08, 2018
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· peterflynn

Expand all "outdated diff" comments in a GitHub pull request

When you post a bunch of comments to a pull request, and the author pushes up changes to address the comments, you're often left with a bunch of collapsed comments like this:

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If you're like me, sometimes you want to refer back to your earlier comments when reviewing the latest changes – maybe to make sure they're all fixed in the new version, or maybe you just want to search for one important note (Cmd+F ignores collapsed comments!).

Here's a quick bookmarklet to expand all those collapsed comments in one shot:

javascript:(function(){$(".outdated-diff-comment-container").addClass("open");}());

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Follow-on: if you want to expand just your own comments, use this:

javascript:(function(){$(".outdated-diff-comment-container").filter(function () { return this.firstElementChild.textContent.indexOf("peterflynn") !== -1; }).addClass("open");}());

(Replacing "peterflynn" with your GitHub user id)

over 1 year ago ·

Another useful one... to expand all "outdated" comment threads that actually have a recent comment in them:

javascript:(function(){var start=new Date("19 Oct 2013"); $(".comment-header-date").filter(function () { return new Date(this.firstElementChild.getAttribute("datetime")) >= start; }).closest(".outdated-diff-comment-container").addClass("open");}());

(Replacing the start date as appropriate)

Note: do not use ISO-style dates ("2013-10-19") unless you also specify a time zone -- unlike other date formats that assume your local timezone unless otherwise specified, ISO is apparently assumed to be UTC time by default.

over 1 year ago ·

How to make outdated diff comment

over 1 year ago ·

When on GitHub page for a pull request and I run this bookmarklet, it does not expand any of the outdate diffs.

over 1 year ago ·

@meellly It still works fine for me. Can you give an example pull request URL on GitHub where it doesn't work?

over 1 year ago ·

My apologies it works now. Thank you! Very helpful

over 1 year ago ·

Do you know of a way to hide all comments? I've tried replacing ("open") with ("hide") and then with ("close").

over 1 year ago ·

@peterflynn

Hi.
Thank you for this article.

Now GitHub seems to no longer use jQuery, so this bookmarklet doesn't work.

error: Uncaught TypeError: $ is not a function

So Please update this article using pure JavaScript like this:

javascript:(function() {var list = document.getElementsByClassName("outdated-diff-comment-container"); for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {list[i].classList.add("open");} ;}());
over 1 year ago ·

Just some code golfing:

javascript:Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('outdated-diff-comment-container')).forEach(l => l.classList.add('open'));

over 1 year ago ·

The class name has changed to outdated-comment.

javascript:Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('outdated-comment')).forEach(l => l.classList.add('open'));
over 1 year ago ·

The className has changed again:
This works for me:
javascript:Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('outdated-diff-comment-container')).forEach(l => l.classList.add('open'));

over 1 year ago ·

It seems that old pull requests have the class name 'outdated-diff-comment-container' and pull requests created after specification change have the class name 'outdated-comment'.

This works for both.

javascript: Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('outdated-diff-comment-container')).concat(Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('outdated-comment'))).forEach(l => l.classList.add('open'));
over 1 year ago ·

Where exactly do you insert this javascript?

over 1 year ago ·