Nice! Built something similar in Rust that supports local and remote repos: https://crates.io/crates/r2md
I thought of using Rust, but ultimately chose Go. I'll take a look and see how something similar came out in Rust!
Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
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Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#82Tip: If you ever need to do this on a public GitHub repository you can use "gitingest". This will open a website that creates a copy of all the file contents of the repo (code, docs, ...) It's a great tool to use when using new/obscure code with LLMs in my opinion. The UX is so just easy and great, change the URL from https://github.com/user_name/repo_name > to https://gitingest.com/user_name/repo_name > //edit: fixe…
I copied the UX to my https://gitpodcast.com (creates podcast on a github repo, same replace `hub` with `podcast`)
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#83Anybody with experience of using something like this with a big codebase and Gemini 2M context window? I tried a while ago (before 2.0 Flash) to solve some refactoring tasks and even after spending some time on prompt wrangling I didn't manage to get good results out of it.
I don't know what kind of agent architecture Cursor uses internally but it seems much better designed at finding where changes need to be made.
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#84Files-to-prompt has been a surprisingly useful tool for this kind of workflow.
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#85If I'm reading this correctly, why include all code into the markdown? It's almost like the AI model that would use this is necessarily using all concatenated code plus explanation of the code, I'm not sure which is better because the LLM then already has access to the entire code as part of markdown?
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#86Is this related to https://gitingest.com/ at all? Which seems to be a service doing a similar thing.
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#87This thread has convinced me that Aider/Cursor need to do more marketing.
The future is not evenly distributed.
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#88Anybody with experience of using something like this with a big codebase and Gemini 2M context window? I tried a while ago (before 2.0 Flash) to solve some refactoring tasks and even after spending some time on prompt wrangling I didn't manage to get good results out of it. I don't know what kind of agent architecture Cursor uses internally but it seems much better designed at finding where changes need to be made.
In my experience with feeding large codebases to Gemini, simple tasks work ok (enumerate where such and such happens, find where a certain function is called, list TODOs throughout the code, etc), but tasks that require a bit more logic are trickier. Nevertheless, I had some success with moderate complex refactoring tasks in Python codebases.
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#89Is this related to https://gitingest.com/ at all? Which seems to be a service doing a similar thing.
It is not. Others have commented pointing to services similar to this one, though.
Re: Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
#90I literally just wrote something similar called techdocs[1] in Rust and uses Claude to generate a README. It includes API and CLI.