gitview

gitview

Browse any git repository in your browser with a UI that looks and feels like github.com. One binary, no setup, read only.

gitview                                    # serve the repo in the current directory
gitview ~/src/linux                        # any local repo, bare repos included
gitview ~/src                              # a folder of repos, with an index page
gitview https://github.com/torvalds/linux  # browse a remote GitHub repo
gitview hf:Qwen/Qwen3-8B                   # browse a Hugging Face repo

Then open http://127.0.0.1:9419.

Full documentation lives at gitview.tamnd.com.

gitview covers the code browsing surfaces and nothing else: repo home with the file table and rendered README, tree and blob views with syntax highlighting and line anchors, file previews (images, audio, video, pdf, docx, csv, parquet), commits, commit diffs, branches, tags, blame, archive downloads, the t file finder, light and dark themes, and the same URL scheme as github.com so deep links transfer by swapping the host. There are no issues, pull requests, accounts, or write operations, and there never will be.

Install

Prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD, plus deb/rpm/apk packages, are on the releases page. Or:

go install github.com/tamnd/gitview/cmd/gitview@latest

There is also a container image with git inside:

docker run -v ~/src:/repos:ro -p 9419:9419 ghcr.io/tamnd/gitview

The local backend shells out to git, which you already have.

Usage

gitview [flags] [target]

  target            local path (default "."), a directory of repos,
                    https://github.com/owner/repo or gh:owner/repo,
                    huggingface.co URL or hf:[datasets/|spaces/]owner/name

  -addr string      listen address (default "127.0.0.1:9419")
  -open             open the browser after starting
  -token string     GitHub token for the GitHub backend (or GITHUB_TOKEN)
  -hf-token string  Hugging Face token for the Hub backend (or HF_TOKEN)
  -dev              verbose error pages and template reload
  -version          print version and exit

Keyboard shortcuts match GitHub: t opens the file finder, y turns the current URL into a permalink, b opens blame on a file, ? lists them.

Notes

• The GitHub backend works without a token at 60 requests/hour; set GITHUB_TOKEN for 5000. Blame and the per-file commit columns are not available on the GitHub backend yet, the REST API has no cheap way to get them.
• The Hugging Face backend handles models, datasets, and Spaces. Gated and private repos need HF_TOKEN. Commit diffs, blame, and archives are not available there; the Hub API does not expose them.
• gitview binds to loopback by default. It has no authentication, so think before passing -addr 0.0.0.0.

License

MIT