O yeah?! I'm at a loss to think how I didn't try that before. This is the way.

I think its likely that that a repo could be shallow cloned in the browser to expose all sorts of repo data. @fiatjaf demonstrated that it can be done in a bandwidth efficient way with git. View quoted note → now its just a case of validating that these options made it into gitlib2, and through the rust wrapper (git2) and into the wasm compiled version that can run the the browser (wasm-git). I'd like to implement a repo explorer and allow links references to commits, files, tags, etc to usefully display the full contents within gitworkshop.dev.