Another option is to run a web GUI like cgit, gitweb, Gitea, or Gogs without exposing it to the internet (so it's only accessible at http://localhost:8888 http:

Another option is to run a web GUI like cgit, gitweb, Gitea, or Gogs without exposing it to the internet (so it's only accessible at http://localhost:8888 http://localhost:8888 or similar). When you want to view it from another machine you can just use SSH port forwarding, like: ssh -L 8888:localhost:8888 user@hostname