v0.1.0

The first release. gitview is a single binary that serves a read-only,
GitHub-style web view of git repositories: point it at a checkout, a folder
of checkouts, a repository on github.com, or a model on huggingface.co, and
browse it in a UI you already know.

gitview ~/src/myproject          # one local repository
gitview ~/src                    # a directory of repositories
gitview gh:torvalds/linux        # github.com over the REST API
gitview hf:datasets/squad        # a Hugging Face dataset

No database, no config file, no daemon. The local backend shells out to your
own git, so anything your git can read, gitview can show.

Browsing

Everything the code side of github.com does, the same way it does it: the
file tree with last-commit messages, commit history with diffs, branches and
tags, blame, a fuzzy file finder on t, line anchors that update as you
click, and README rendering with GitHub-flavored markdown, alerts, and
syntax-highlighted fences. Light and dark themes follow your system.

Three backends

• Local: any repository or bare repository on disk, via the git CLI.
• GitHub (gh:owner/repo or a github.com URL): the REST API with ETag
  caching, so a token is optional and the rate limit is treated politely.
• Hugging Face (hf:owner/name, also datasets/ and spaces/): models,
  datasets, and spaces straight from the Hub API, with LFS handled honestly.

File previews

Files render by type, not just as text: images, audio, and video play
inline; PDFs display in the browser; Word documents render as readable text;
CSV and TSV become real tables; Parquet files show their schema and first
rows with proper types. Anything tabular keeps an honest truncation note,
and every preview keeps Raw a click away with HTTP range support.

Quiet on security

The server is read-only by construction. Strict CSP on every page, sanitized
markdown, escape-everything previews with hard size caps, and tokens that
never cross services. The full posture is one page:
https://gitview.tamnd.com/reference/security/

Install

Grab an archive below for your platform, or:

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

# Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine: deb, rpm, and apk packages are attached

# Container (mount your repositories at /repos)
docker run -v ~/src:/repos:ro -p 9419:9419 ghcr.io/tamnd/gitview:0.1.0

The checksums.txt is signed with keyless cosign; the .pem and .sig
attached here verify it came from this repository's release workflow.

Docs live at https://gitview.tamnd.com.