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>point it at a repository locally and get a GitHub-like view of the repository, where I can browse all the files, see their last commit date/message, click on them, and see the contents as well as history and git blame

You can do pretty much all of these things with Sublime Merge 2, so?

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I don't think so. At first glance, the file browser is only showing files that were part of the commit selected. He wants to have a full file explorer like if you opened a Github repo and started clicking into directories. Unless there's an option to enable that somewhere that I'm missing.

When you have a specific commit selected you can see in the Files tab at the bottom two buttons Changes and Tree. If you select Tree it will show you the tree for that commit. From there you can get the blame log or history for individual files.

There it is. I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out. Merge is much quicker to navigate to specific points in time than GitHub and GitLab are, so this should be useful.

I haven't seen something like Github's file browser in Sublime Merge. That is, where I can browse ALL the files in a particular branch, just like on Github. Maybe I haven't dug in enough if this exists.

Select the Tree view. It will show all dirs/files in the branch from the selected commit (e.g. HEAD).

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