Folder Jumping
You’ll now start seeing expanded file listings on GitHub that look like this: The grey text in the paths — in this case, java/com/netflix/ — means those three folders don’t…
You’ll now start seeing expanded file listings on GitHub that look like this:
The grey text in the paths — in this case, java/com/netflix/ — means those three folders don’t contain any other files. Click on the expanded path to save yourself extra clicks and jump directly to the first non-empty directory.

As a reminder, you can also type t to invoke the File Finder and jump directly to any file you like.
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