Is there a GUI to display a file from a remote git repository without cloning it?

Question

If I want to look inside a file in a remote repository, is this possible without cloning the whole repository?

I tried

git ls-remote git@remoteserver.com:repo.git

but that only displays references available in a remote repository along with the associated commit IDs.

There is a solution on the console here but that is quite complicated and not very handy to use on multiple files. You can see the content in some certain file (for ex. ìndex.php) this way.

Optimal for me would be a sort of file-browser (like Krusader) on Linux, where I would just enter the git url git@remoteserver.com:repo.git and can browse all files inside the repository.

Answer 1

Option 1

Use something as gitweb in the pc that have the original repository.

Option 2

If you can't do that, you can make a shallow clone with depth=1 that should be as fast as downloading an snapshot.

Option 3

If you don't want that it will depend on the actual protocol you are using to get the repo, usually it is ssh or http, so you can mount a virtual file-system pointing there with the right credentials.

Alternative

May be you should be looking for a service like github that will help browsing repos without download.