09/21/2026
Want to see how swapping one word in a GitHub URL turns any repo into a visual map you can actually understand?
π₯ Check the comments section below for all the GitHub URL tricks and resources
1. Open up any repo on GitHub and grab the URL straight out of the address bar. Any project works, big or small, it does not matter how messy the codebase is.
2. Replace github with git-diagram in that URL and keep everything else exactly the same. Same username, same repo name, nothing else changes.
3. Hit enter and it builds a visual explainer of the entire repo for you, so you can see how the whole thing is put together instead of clicking through folders one by one.
Here is what most people are completely sleeping on. This is not the only one. There are a bunch of these URL swaps that change what GitHub shows you, and they all work the exact same way.
Understanding a repo you did not write used to mean reading through files for an hour trying to build the map in your head. Now it is one word swapped in the address bar.
π₯ Check the comments section below for all the GitHub URL tricks and resources