Git Patch Viewer

What is Git Patch Viewer?

"Git Patch Viewer" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance the experience of viewing and managing Git patches. It can automatically render the page based on the URL patterns set in the options. Clicking the icon allows you to render the current page or revert it to raw. The source code of this extension is openly available on GitHub for anyone interested in understanding the working of the extention.

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By: DENG Yi

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Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.50 (38)

Version: 1.8 (Last updated: 2015-12-23)

Creation date: 2015-12-23

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
tabs

Size: 19.09K

Email: da*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 16281 ▼ 9

Other rankings

#6862 in Developer Tools ▼ 17 #97 in viewer keyword 70 ▲ 4

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Extension summary

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Git Patch Viewer.

Click on icon to render current page or revert to raw.

Set URL patterns in options page for auto rendering.

Source code: https://github.com/daviddengcn/patch-ext

User reviews

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Pros

Very useful extension.
Works as expected, making the reading of GIT patch files much easier.
Allows for local diff file access with proper settings.
Simple and effective tool for displaying patches.
Helpful for large pull requests that GitHub struggles with.

Cons

Font color issues in dark mode making text unreadable.
Changes in plugin options do not persist.
Requires manual settings adjustment to work with local files.
Some users reported it not working with the latest version.
Difficulties in opening patch files and accessing settings.

Most mentioned

file://[^/]*/.*[.]diff
file://[^/]*/.*[.]patch
Allow access to file URLs in extension manager.
Not working at latest version.
Very useful extension.

Recent reviews

Jean-Christophe LEBRETON, 2024-07-01

The font color is white, not sure if it is because my system settings has dark mode enabled. Only the highlighted text is readable. However changing this line - <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"> to <meta name="color-scheme" content="light"> did the trick.

Harsha Sridhar, 2023-06-30

file://[^/]*/.*[.]diff file://[^/]*/.*[.]patch this is needed to work locally, otherwise this plugin is waste .. and after apply in plugin options.. the changes in plugins are not persist