repotofile-cli

repotofile-cli is a very light weight command-line tool that allows users to download a GitHub repository or an existing file directory and generate a text file containing the repository's code, excluding files specified in .gitignore. It's particularly useful for code analysis, backups and uploading to large language models like chatGPT.

Features

• Clone any public GitHub repository.
• Optionally exclude configuration files, replacing their content with a placeholder.
• Generate a single text or markdown file with the entire codebase, neatly separated by files.
• Easy to install and use with a simple command.
• Ignore config files and directories by default
• Add custom files and directories to ignore

Installation

To install repotofile-cli, ensure you have Python installed on your system, then run:

pip install repotofile-cli

Usage

After installation, you can use the repotofile command or its shorthand rtf:

repotofile <repository-url> [options]

or

rtf <repository-url> [options]

or

repotofile <directory> [options]

Options

• -b, --branch : Specify a branch or tag to download. Defaults to the default branch of the repository.
• -o, --output : Custom output file name or path. Defaults to '[repository-name].txt'.
• --no-config : Replace the content of configuration files with a placeholder comment.

Examples

Cloning a repository and generating the default output file:

repotofile https://github.com/user/repo

Cloning a specific branch:

repotofile https://github.com/user/repo -b feature-branch

Generating a custom output file:

repotofile https://github.com/user/repo -o ~/Documents/repo_snapshot.txt

Ignoring custom files and directories:

    repotofile https://github.com/user/repo --ignore-files "*.log,*.txt" --ignore-dirs "build,docs"

Contributing

Contributions to repotofile-cli are welcome! Please read our contributing guidelines (link to guidelines) to get started.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Maurits Bos - maurits.bos@gmail.com Project Link: https://github.com/mbbrainz/repotofile-cli