URLs

gitview's URL space mirrors github.com exactly. That is a feature with teeth: any github.com deep link, with the host swapped, lands on the same content here, line anchors included.

The route map

Path	Page
/	index of served repositories (redirects home when there is only one)
/{owner}/{repo}	repository home
/{owner}/{repo}/tree/{ref}/{path}	directory listing
/{owner}/{repo}/blob/{ref}/{path}	file viewer
/{owner}/{repo}/raw/{ref}/{path}	raw file bytes
/{owner}/{repo}/commits	commit list at the default branch
/{owner}/{repo}/commits/{ref}	commit list at a ref, optionally /{ref}/{path} for one path
/{owner}/{repo}/commit/{sha}	one commit with its full diff
/{owner}/{repo}/branches	branch list
/{owner}/{repo}/tags	tag list
/{owner}/{repo}/blame/{ref}/{path}	blame view
/{owner}/{repo}/find/{ref}	the file finder
/{owner}/{repo}/archive/...	archive downloads, github.com-style refs

Local repositories use local as the owner, so a repo served from disk lives at /local/{name}.

Refs in URLs

{ref} is a branch, a tag, or a commit SHA, exactly as github.com accepts them. Branch names containing slashes disambiguate the same way github.com does. Short SHAs redirect to the full SHA, so an ID copied from git log --oneline works in the address bar.

Anchors

#L42 highlights a line on blob and blame pages, #L42-L57 a range, and #diff-... anchors address a file within a commit diff. These are the github.com anchor forms, so links keep meaning the same thing when the host changes.

Permalinks

The y key rewrites the current URL's ref into the full commit SHA without reloading. SHA-pinned pages are immutable, so gitview also marks them long-cacheable; revisits are instant.