voronind / conventional-comments-button

Gitlab comment buttons

Conventional Comments button

This is a tiny extension that adds a conventional comment button to GitLab file explorer comments, allowing to quickly leave a structured semantic comment during your MR reviews!

Demo

How to install

First, clone this repo git clone [e-mail]:conventionalcomments/conventional-comments-button.git and then see below for browser specific instructions.

Chrome

Recently chrome disallowed to install packed crx extension that are not listed on the Chrome Store, so to install this

• On Chrome: Menu
  • More Tools
    • Extensions (be sure to have Developer Mode enabled there)
• In the Extension page: Load unpacked and select the cloned repository

Firefox

• On Firefox: enter about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox into the address bar
• In the Extension page: Load Temporary Add-on... and select any file within the cloned repository

How to update

• git pull

Chrome

• On Chrome: Menu
  • More Tools
    • Extensions
• In the Extension page find conventional comments button and hit the refresh button

Firefox

• On Firefox: enter about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox into the address bar
• In the Extension page find conventional comments button and hit the reload button

How to run it on a self-hosted instance

• Open manifest.json
• Add your domain to permissions and content_scripts -> matches
• Open the browser and install or update the extension

Credits

This project bundles some of the icon coming from font-awesome icons as SVG