Files and code

Tree pages

/{owner}/{repo}/tree/{ref}/{path} lists a directory at any ref: branch, tag, or commit SHA. The breadcrumb is clickable segment by segment, and a README in the directory renders below the listing.

The blob viewer

/{owner}/{repo}/blob/{ref}/{path} shows a file with syntax highlighting (a couple hundred languages, by file name and content), line numbers, the file size, and the line count. The toolbar offers Raw (the exact bytes, correct content type), Blame, and History for that file.

Line anchors

Click a line number to select the line and put #L42 in the URL. Shift-click another to select the range, #L42-L57. Links with anchors scroll and highlight on load, exactly like github.com, so code review links and chat links transfer between gitview and github.com by swapping the host.

Permalinks

Press y and the ref in your URL is replaced with the full commit SHA, the same trick github.com has. The page does not reload; the address bar just becomes durable. Share that link and it shows the same bytes forever, no matter what the branch does next.

Markdown and rendering

Markdown files render GitHub-flavored by default, with a Raw view one click away. Alerts, task lists, tables, footnotes, and heading anchors all work. Sanitization is strict: scripts, event handlers, and javascript: links never survive, even inside raw HTML blocks.

File previews

Every file type below renders as a preview on the blob page. Text-backed previews (markdown, csv) keep a Code toggle to the plain source; the rest show the content directly.

File	What you get
Images	rendered inline (PNG, JPEG, GIF, SVG, WebP, AVIF); SVG is served sandboxed
Audio	a player (MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A, Opus) with seeking
Video	a player (MP4, WebM, MOV, OGV) with seeking, no autoplay
PDF	the browser's own viewer, embedded
Word (.docx)	extracted text at reading fidelity: headings, bold and italic, lists, tables, external links
CSV / TSV	a table with a header row, row numbers, and a Code toggle; semicolon csv detected; capped at 1,000 rows and 100 columns with a note
Parquet	the schema (every column with its type) plus the first 100 rows; the total row count comes from the file footer

A preview that cannot parse its file falls back to the next sensible view instead of an error page: a corrupt parquet shows the binary notice, a malformed csv shows the source.

Files that are not text

File	What you get
Binary	a "binary file not shown" notice with the size and a Raw download link
Git LFS pointer	an LFS banner with the object id and true size, no accidental gigabyte download
Symlink	the link target, shown as the file content, like git stores it
Over 10 MB	a too-large notice with a Raw link; the page stays fast

On Hugging Face repos, parquet and media files above the LFS threshold show the LFS banner rather than a preview; gitview never downloads an LFS object behind your back. Clone the repo and point gitview at the local copy to preview those.

Raw files

/{owner}/{repo}/raw/{ref}/{path} serves the file bytes with a correct content type and aggressive caching for SHA-pinned URLs. It is what curl wants.