Repo Summarizer

A command-line tool that generates a comprehensive summary of a repository or directory structure.

Features

• Recursively traverses directories
• Displays directory structure as a tree
• Shows file contents with line numbers
• Ignores binary files
• Provides statistics about file types and line counts
• Excludes specified directories or files (e.g., .git, node_modules, etc.)
• Notes symlinks without following them

Installation

cargo install repo-summarizer

Usage

repo-summarizer [OPTIONS] <INPUT_DIR> <OUTPUT_FILE>

Options

-e, --exclude <PATTERNS>    Patterns to exclude (comma-separated glob patterns)
-h, --help                  Print help
-V, --version               Print version

Example

repo-summarizer ~/projects/my-rust-app ./summary.txt --exclude "target,node_modules,.git"

Output Format

The output file will include:

• A tree view of the directory structure
• File contents with line numbers
• Statistics about the project (number of files, directories, lines of code)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.