Git Broken Link Checker for GitHub, GitLab, READMEs, and Docs
This page focuses on repository documentation workflows. If your team ships docs from GitHub or GitLab, DeadLinkTool helps validate README links, relative paths, docs folders, and branch-sensitive links before they break onboarding or release notes.
Checks README links, docs-folder links, and root-relative references
Useful after branch renames, file moves, and monorepo refactors
Lets you export cleaned Markdown after fixing supported targets
How to use this workflow
Step 1
Start from a repo doc URL
Paste the README or docs URL, or paste the Markdown directly for private/internal repositories.
Step 2
Validate branch-aware links
Review relative paths, root-relative docs links, and outbound references that often decay over time.
Step 3
Export fixed docs
Use the Markdown fixing workflow to clean the file before committing it back to the repository.
FAQ
Is this a full repository crawler?
No. The current Git workflow is centered on Markdown and repository-doc inputs, especially README and docs files.
Should I use the Website tab or Markdown tab for repo docs?
Use the Markdown tab for GitHub or GitLab docs. That is the workflow that resolves repository-style relative links.