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Re:Show HN: Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard fo... by reacharavindh on Thursday September 12, 2024 @11:14AM (#41521877)
Do you literally paste a wall of text (source code of the filtered whole repo) into the prompt and ask the LLM to give you a diff patch as an answer to your question?

Example,

Here is my whole project, now implement user authentication with plain username/password?

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Re:Show HN: Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard fo... by ukuina on Thursday September 12, 2024 @11:41AM (#41522148)
Yes? I mean, it works for small projects.
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Re:Show HN: Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard fo... by punkpeye on Thursday September 12, 2024 @11:25AM (#41521979)
Yes
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Re:Show HN: Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard fo... by grbsh on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:37PM (#41522720)
Yes! And I fought the urge to do this for so long, I think because it _feels_ wasteful for some reason? But Claude handles it like a champ*, and gets me significantly better and easier results than if I manually pasted a file in a described the rest of the context it needs by hand.

* Until the repository gets more complicated, which is why we need the intelligent relevance filtering features of repogather, e.g. `repogather "Only files related to authentication and avatar uploads"`

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