Fast-forward merge for GitHub

Conveniently fast-forward merge branches directly from your browser, without opening a terminal!

Install this extension at chrome web store
Install this extension at addons.mozilla.org

Privacy

This browser extension requires a GitHub personal access token (classic) to function. Your token is stored only on your local machine using the browser.storage.local API¹² and is not synchronized. Your token will be used solely to call the following APIs:

• GET https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/pulls/PULL_NUMBER
• GET https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/compare/BASE...HEAD
• GET https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/commits/REF
• PATCH https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/git/refs/REF

For more details, please refer to PRIVACY.md.

Features

Fast-forward merge PRs	Fast-forward merge arbitrary branches/tags/refs

How to contribute

# Install dependencies
pnpm i
# Chrome dev server
pnpm dev
# Firefox dev server
pnpm dev:firefox
# Checks
pnpm run ci

# Distribution (prepare 'privkey.pem' first)
pnpm build
'/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' --pack-extension=.output/chrome-mv3 --pack-extension-key=privkey.pem
mv .output/{chrome-mv3,ff-for-github-0.1.2-chrome}.crx

pnpm zip:firefox

 

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ff-for-github is primarily distributed under the terms of both the Apache License (Version 2.0) and the MIT license. See COPYRIGHT for details.

Footnotes

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage/local ↩

2. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/storage#property-local ↩