[vertex-four]

GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser, as well as various other useful features. The only other reasonable alternative for a large open-source project, aside from self-hosting, is bitbucket.

[sfk]

I disagree. GitHub looks cluttered and the contrast is too low for speed reading. I prefer the hg interface, for example:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/

Another interface I prefer is:

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

[oblio]

You like cvsweb? It's horrible. I'm here: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/CVSROOT/. Why does not clicking a file open the file?!?!? Every freaking file browser in existence opens the file when I click it. It's been designed in the 90s and it shows :(

[_ZeD_]

ironically there is an ongoing discussion on python-devel to migrate from hg to git+github

IMHO it's an error, but I am not a core python developer

[rplnt]

I would like to disagree with the "the best". Mostly because it's obviously your opinion and not something you can say definitely.

[coldtea]

Sometimes you have to learn to trust your opinion too -- and to learn to access others opinions when there are no definite answers.

[tomp]

Can you give any alternatives?

[rplnt]

Well the already mentioned bitbucket, stash, cgit, gitweb, ... My point is that if you like something it isn't automatically "the best".

[snowwrestler]

Lot of replies here disagreeing that GitHub is "the best", and offering alternatives.

Allow me to suggest that GitHub is at minimum the most-visited web-based git repo, which means that if you want a lot of people to view and use your code, it's a good place to mirror.

[sampo]

> GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser

I like Bitbucket's side-by-side diff view so much, that I think I prefer Bitbucker for browsing.

But this is only because Bitbucket has the side-by-side diff view, anf GitHub does not.

[ayrx]

GitHub introduced side-by-side diffs recently.

[sampo]

Oh, right, thanks. They just call it "split" and not side-by-side.

[1wd]

Could you describe what makes it the best repository browser?

I like e.g. https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/chef