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Support Github "Viewed" behavior in hunk #646
Description
What do you want to change?
Add a "file viewed" type option (how Github has) to allow a file that has already been reviewed (and not changed) to be collapsed by default
Why?
My PR review workflow is: look at a file, check if it makes sense, mark it as viewed, continue. This give me a measure of progress and see what remains, and reduces the noise when I need to review additions made to the branch.
How? (optional)
I have not reviewed the codebase, but it seems like it slots into a larger these of state between runs: #113 #504
Also tricky: in the context of a PR, what has been "viewed" is hear (the PR is a single context evolving over time), running hunk diff would need some way to correlate this run of hunk with a previous one in which the file was marked as viewed.
Reacted by Mike Chen, Brandon Corey, Danny Alder, yota-hagiwara-jtcc, Daniel Mondragón, gkTim, Goto Hayato, Alexei Tenitski, Dylan Fontana, Brian Douglass and 7 more
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iloveitaly commentedon Jul 31, 2026
I like this idea, but I would prefer if hunk stored the state locally instead of being tied to GH for this.
webmonarch commentedon Jul 31, 2026
@iloveitaly agreed! My wording might be ambiguous. The GH version is the desired UX, I expect all state to live in hunk only. No GitHub coupling.
tenitski commentedon Aug 20, 2026
Remembering state is great, but even the ability to collapse files and hunks would be a massive quality of life improvement when examining large diffs.
bpshaver commentedon Aug 24, 2026
I would also like this. Is this something that could be accomplished by an extension?
matt-heindel-gl commentedon Aug 28, 2026
Plus one. Collapsing files and hunks is a big missing feature IMO. Even better if state is persisted locally but not strictly necessary. I'm coming from using fugitive in NeoVim and this is what I miss the most.
bpshaver commentedon Aug 28, 2026
@matt-heindel-gl I made this extension for myself: https://github.com/bpshaver/hunk-mark-viewed
When I went back to the extensions community hub, I saw that someone else had beaten me to the punch by pushing a similar extension: https://github.com/evantravers/hunk-mark-as-reviewed
Maybe one or the other of them will meet your needs!