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pomber / git-history

Quickly browse the history of a file from any git repository

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Repository Summary (README)

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<div align="center"> <a href="https://github.githistory.xyz/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/up.c"> <img alt="demo" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1911623/54575634-9b10b000-49d3-11e9-8a19-56e40636e45d.gif" width="600" /> </a> </div>

Git History

Quickly browse the history of files in any git repo:

  1. Go to a file in GitHub (or GitLab, or Bitbucket)
  2. Replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz
  3. There's no step three

Try it

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Extensions

Browsers

You can also add an Open in Git History button to GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket with the Chrome and Firefox extensions.

<details><summary>Or you can use a bookmarklet.</summary> 
javascript: (function() {
  var url = window.location.href;
  var regEx = /^(https?\:\/\/)(www\.)?(github|gitlab|bitbucket)\.(com|org)\/(.*)$/i;
  if (regEx.test(url)) {
    url = url.replace(regEx, "$1$3.githistory.xyz/$5");
    window.open(url, "_blank");
  } else {
    alert("Not a Git File URL");
  }
})();
</details>

Local Repos

You can use Git History for local git repos with the CLI or with the VS Code extension.

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Sponsors

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Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

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Thanks

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Credits

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License

MIT