export interface Forge {
    /** Which family the URL shape came from; "unknown" means the convention was assumed. */
    kind: "github" | "gitlab" | "bitbucket" | "azure" | "unknown";
    /** The host, shown so a person can see where a link goes before clicking it. */
    host: string;
    /** Web URL of the repository, no trailing slash. */
    repoUrl: string;
}
/**
 * A remote URL in any of the forms git accepts, as a web URL.
 *
 * Returns null for a remote nothing can be built from: a local path, a file://
 * clone, an empty string. A project cloned from a directory has no web home,
 * and inventing one would produce a link to nowhere.
 */
export declare function parseRemote(remote: string): Forge | null;
/** Where that commit is browsable, in whichever shape this host uses. */
export declare function commitUrl(forge: Forge, sha: string): string | null;
/**
 * The remote to link against: `origin` when there is one, else whatever the
 * repository's first remote is, because a checkout with one differently-named
 * remote is still a checkout with a web home.
 */
export declare function readRemote(cwd: string): Promise<string | null>;
export declare function forgeOf(cwd: string): Promise<Forge | null>;
/** Drop the memo, for tests and for a ui server that has been repointed. */
export declare function forgetForges(): void;