The github.com code browser, for any repository

gitview is a single read-only binary that serves the github.com browsing experience for local repositories, GitHub repositories, and Hugging Face repos. Point it at a path or a URL and start reading code.

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You know how to read code on github.com: the file table, the README under it, syntax-highlighted blobs with line anchors, commits, diffs, blame, the t finder. gitview gives you that exact experience for repositories that are not on github.com, or not online at all.

gitview                                    # the repo you are standing in
gitview ~/src/linux                        # any local repo, bare repos included
gitview ~/src                              # a whole folder of repos, with an index
gitview gh:torvalds/linux                  # a repo on github.com, over the API
gitview hf:openai-community/gpt2           # a model on huggingface.co

Then open http://127.0.0.1:9419 and browse. The URL scheme matches github.com exactly, so the muscle memory and the deep links transfer: swap the host on a /blob/main/...#L42 link and it just works.

gitview is deliberately small. It covers code browsing and nothing else: no issues, no pull requests, no accounts, no editing, and no write operations of any kind, ever. It is one static Go binary that shells out to git for local repositories and speaks the public HTTP APIs for remote ones, renders everything server-side, and ships its assets embedded. Start it, read code, ctrl-C it, forget it was running.

Getting started Install gitview and browse your first repository in under a minute. Browsing Every surface of the UI: repo home, files, history, blame, the finder, and the shortcut map. Backends Local git, GitHub, and Hugging Face targets: how each works, tokens, and what degrades where. Reference The CLI, the URL scheme, the security model, and troubleshooting, each on one page.