Browse source

You want to look into a repository's source without installing Git or downloading anything.

Every mounted repository has a screen of its own with a file tree and lists of branches and tags. The content is read live from the connected system on every call; the wiki holds no copy.

1. Open Repositories and choose the repository you want.
2. The Code tab shows the file tree of the current branch. Clicking a folder expands it in place; its contents are fetched then, and the page is not rebuilt.
3. Clicking a file opens its content for reading, syntax-highlighted. Where the source viewer is absent from an installation, the tree stays walkable and files cannot be opened.
4. Through Branches or Tags you choose another revision. Clicking an entry returns to Code, pinned to that revision.
5. The header names project, repository, visibility, your role and the revision shown.

The chosen revision is in the address. A link to a particular branch therefore stays valid and shows every person the same revision.

Every repository has an address, even without a wiki page of its own. The screen is called through the namespace the repository is mounted on, and can be bookmarked:

?do=wkdoadogit_repo&ns=code:dokuwiki-plugins:wkdoadogit&ref=main&tab=code

ref pins branch or tag, tab chooses between code, branches and tags. Both may be absent; the default branch and the Code tab then apply.

Which files you see is decided by the ACL of the namespace the repository is mounted on — not by a licence of the source system.

Visibility and role stand side by side in the header because only together do they say what the screen permits: visibility belongs to the repository, the role to you.

There are no tabs leading nowhere. Where an area does not appear, it is absent from this installation — it is not greyed out for lack of permission.

Every call is an access to the source system. The tree keeps no stock: an expanded folder and an opened file are fetched at that moment. A page with many embedded excerpts pays that correspondingly often.

• Download as ZIP
• Clone a repository
• Find repositories
• Embed source in a wiki page — when the excerpt belongs in a documentation page