Open git repositories, commits, directories, and files in the browser. See also, git-reviewers.
This script can be added as a gitconfig alias to easily browse repositories on Git hosting services (e.g. github). It is built to model arcanist's browse command. It is specifically designed to have no dependencies so it should be easily installable and very portable.
Git Browse supports opening git repositories, commits, directories, and files:
If you use Homebrew, you can install git-browse through the homebrew-albertyw tap:
brew install albertyw/albertyw/git-browse
If you don't use Homebrew, first clone this repository to somewhere on
your system (perhaps in your dotfiles repository), then run
<REPOSITORY_LOCATION>/install.sh.
$ git browse -h
'browse' is aliased to '!~/.dotfiles/scripts/git/git-browse/git_browse/browse.py --path=${GIT_PREFIX:-./}'
usage: browse.py [-h] [--path PATH] [-d] [-c] [-s] [-g] [-v] [target]
Open repositories, directories, and files in the browser. https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse
positional arguments:
target file, directory, git hash, or git branch you wish to browse
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--path PATH relative path to the current git repository
-d, --dry-run Do not open the url in the brower, and only print to stdout
-c, --copy Copy url to clipboard, if available
-s, --sourcegraph Open objects in sourcegraph
-g, --godocs Open objects in godocs
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
| Command | Opens |
|---|---|
git browse | https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse |
git browse README.md | https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse/blob/master/README.md |
git browse git_browse | https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse/tree/master/git_browse/ |
git browse v1.1.1 | https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse/commit/80b219dee0aaa86b378993cbf88511126b813c5f |
git browse --sourcegraph | https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/albertyw/git-browse |
git browse --godocs | https://godocs.io/github.com/albertyw/git-browse |
git browse for Bitbucket | https://bitbucket.org/albertyw/asdf |
git browse for Gitlab | https://gitlab.com/albertyw/asdf |
git browse for Uber Phabricator | https://code.uberinternal.com/diffusion/rASDF/repository/master/ |
pip install -e .[test]
ruff check .
mypy .
coverage run -m unittest
coverage report
__version__ variable with a semantic versionFAQs
Open repositories, directories, and files in the browser
We found that git-browse demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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