[dump-repo] Dump the contents of an entire git repo into a text file at the root #bash #git

dump-repo.sh

# A really insane command that dumps all of the text content of a directory into
# a single pathname-delimited text file. I use this to share my repo with claude,
# in lieu of a co-pilot.
# ⚠️ WARNING: You should definitely add repo.txt to your .gitignore !!
alias dump-repo='
# 2>/dev/null suppresses error messages if not in a Git repo
git_root=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)

if [ -z "$git_root" ]; then
    echo "Not in a git repository"
    return 1
fi

cd "$git_root"
file_count=0

# Start a subshell to capture all output
{
    # List all files tracked by Git, untracked files, but exclude ignored files
    # Then remove pnpm-lock.yaml from this list
    # Finally, loop through each file
    git ls-files --cached --others --exclude-standard | grep -v "pnpm-lock.yaml" | while IFS= read -r file; do
        ((file_count++))
        
        # Print a separator with the file name
        echo "=== $file ==="
        
        if file -b --mime-type "$file" | grep -q "^text/"; then
            # If it is a text file, output its contents
            cat "$file"
        else
            # If it is not a text file (i.e., binary), output a description instead
            echo "[Binary file: $(file -b "$file")]"
        fi
    done
    # Redirect all output from the subshell to repo.txt
} > repo.txt

echo "Repository contents dumped to $git_root/repo.txt"
echo "Total number of files processed: $file_count"
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