Just for fun, because I could, I vibed up a `cgit` replacement that runs entirely in the browser -- point it at a git repo where you've run `git update-server-info` and it'll load files as if it's starting to clone the repo, using range requests and browser caching to avoid actually loading more data than necessary for the view you've requested.

I'm certainly not saying you should use this code, but it's a proof of concept for avoiding the CPU overhead of cgit rendering by loading the data on the client.

It cost me £8.27 of Fable use (from the free credits I've been given) and 56% of my five hour quota on a $20/month Pro plan. There's no server logic, it's 1.3MB of minified JS and CSS and (while I'm absolutely not suggesting anyone try to use it) it basically works: https://github.com/andrewaylett/rgitweb

This is a one-shot, my prompt set the expectation that I'd be able to load resources using CORS but (not entirely unreasonably) the Git hosts I've tried don't set CORS headers.

Shared more because I was pleasantly surprised at how cheap and easy this was -- and with a repo link because talking about it without sharing the link would be a bit crass.