UI Like Azure DevOps: Full Page File Diff, One at a Time

[rdoddanavar]

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Does anyone else miss the simple Pull Request UI of Azure Devops?

I'm struggling to articulate what is off about GitHub's PR diff view, but it feels much less readable than that in Azure Devops. In Azure Devops, I can:

• Scroll on the left-hand sidebar through the file tree
• Scroll on the main pane through the file itself
  • The scroll-able area stops at the end of the file
  • The file's entire contents are shown by default

GitHub's PR diff view is almost identical, but the defaults feel wrong:

• All files are minimized by default
• All files are included in the scroll-able area
• Large PR's become sluggish

I understand that you can expand a file's contents using the provided button, but this is tedious for PR's with a high file count. If 100 files have been changed, I would like to review them one at a time. It's easy to lose your place when scrolling through a long list of files.

Am I misguided? Anyone else have experience with Azure DevOps and have an opinion on this? GitHub's PR diff view is less readable, and I think it is a consequence of its view setting defaults and lack of customization.

Azure DeVOps

• One file at a time
• Full file shown
  

GitHub

• I want this view restricted to one file at a time
• Why can't I have all files expanded by default?
  

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[rouke-broersma]

You're not crazy, I feel the same way. The fact that there is no button to fully expand a file without clicking the expand lines button for each collapsed section sometimes makes pull request review a hassle. You can open the full file, but then you lose the diff. Not as good as azure devops.

[frozenblit]

The devops layout is also more convenient when doing large code refactoring, like deleting a folder of small files. In DevOps, I can mark the whole folder as read. There's no equivalent feature in Github