Release v1.0.0 - First Stable Release 🎉

🎉 First Stable Release!

We're excited to announce version 1.0.0 of repo-to-text! This marks the project's maturity with stable functionality, comprehensive test coverage, and active community contributions.

✨ What's New

New Feature: Skip Binary Files

• Added --skip-binary CLI option to skip binary file contents in output
• Useful for repositories with large binary data that can overwhelm LLMs
• Binary files are marked as "binary content skipped" instead of base64-encoded content
• Thanks to @lacraig2 (Luke Craig) for this contribution! 🙏

📊 Project Stats

• 43 passing tests
• Python 3.9+ support
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions
• Active community contributions

🚀 Usage

```bash

Skip binary files in output

repo-to-text --skip-binary

Or combine with other options

repo-to-text --skip-binary --stdout > output.txt
```

🙏 Contributors

Special thanks to @lacraig2 for the --skip-binary feature!

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v1.0.0

Release v0.8.0 - Windows Support Fix

What's New in v0.8.0

Windows Support Fix 🪟

Fixed the tree command to work properly on Windows systems. The tool now correctly handles directory tree generation on Windows platforms.

Other Changes

• Refactored cursor rules organization for better project structure

Special Thanks 🙏

A huge thank you to our community contributors who helped make this release possible:

• @qchapp (Quentin) - for reporting issue #26 about the Windows tree command problem
• @sityware - for testing and confirming the fix works on Windows

Your contributions help make repo-to-text better for everyone!

Changes

• Fix tree command for Windows (PR #35, fixes #26)
• Refactor: reorganize cursor rules into .cursor directory

Installation

pip install --upgrade repo-to-text

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

Release v0.7.0: Word Count Splitting Feature

What's New in v0.7.0

🚀 Major Feature: Word Count Splitting

Added support for splitting large output files by maximum word count. This feature helps manage output size when converting large repositories.

Features:

• maximum_word_count_per_file: New configuration option in .repo-to-text-settings.yaml
• Automatically splits output into multiple files when content exceeds the specified word limit
• Split files are named using the convention 'output_filename_part_N.txt'
• Maintains file structure integrity when splitting

Configuration Example:

# Optional: Maximum word count per output file
maximum_word_count_per_file: 10000

Improvements & Fixes

• Enhanced error handling in process_line function
• Improved display path in save_repo_to_text output
• Added comprehensive test coverage for word count splitting
• Fixed pylint warnings and improved code quality
• Refactored logging statements for better readability
• Updated CI/CD pipeline with better test coverage

🧪 Testing

• Added extensive test suite for word count splitting functionality
• Tests for edge cases including very small word limits
• Validation for invalid configuration values
• Fixed multiple test assertion issues identified during CI

📖 Documentation

• Updated README.md with detailed word count splitting documentation
• Added configuration examples and usage patterns
• Improved settings file documentation

Technical Changes

• New generate_output_content function for handling content splitting
• Enhanced load_additional_specs for configuration validation
• Updated save functionality to handle multiple output files
• Improved type annotations throughout codebase

🏗️ Infrastructure

• Fixed GitHub Actions CI pipeline
• Enhanced pylint configuration and error handling
• Updated development dependencies
• Improved test reliability and debugging output

Thanks to @Zhan-Li

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Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0

v0.6.0 - XML Output Format"

What's Changed

Changed

• Breaking change: Output format changed from markdown code blocks to structured XML format
• Added root <repo-to-text> tag to wrap the entire output
• Changed code blocks to use <directory_structure> and <content full_path="..."> tags
• Updated .repo-to-text-settings.yaml comments to reflect the new XML format
• Enhanced binary file handling with proper Latin-1 encoding

Improved

• Refactored code to use more functional programming patterns
• Added comprehensive type annotations throughout the codebase
• Split large functions into smaller, more focused ones
• Improved error handling and edge cases
• Updated documentation to reflect the new XML-based output format

Release v0.5.4: Code Quality and Performance Improvements 🚀

This release focuses on enhancing code quality, improving performance, and strengthening maintainability of the repo-to-text tool.

🔍 Key Changes

Performance & Architecture

• 🔄 Refactored tree structure generation and filtering logic for better performance
• 🗑️ Improved empty directory handling with new removal logic
• ⚡ Reduced test matrix for more efficient CI/CD pipeline

Code Quality

• 📝 Added pylint configuration to pyproject.toml for consistent code style
• 🧹 Comprehensive linter-driven code cleanup across the codebase
• 🛠️ Fixed issue with too many local variables in load_ignore_specs
• 🔧 General code structure improvements and optimizations

Release v0.5.2: Enhanced Testing & Type Safety

🚀 Major Improvements

• Added support for multiple Python versions in test suite
• Implemented comprehensive workflow tests for CI/CD pipeline
• Enhanced strict typing across the codebase for better reliability
• Improved project configuration with pyproject.toml updates

🔧 Technical Details

• Extended test matrix to cover multiple Python versions
• Added workflow tests to ensure CI/CD reliability
• Implemented strict typing and improved error handling
• Optimized pyproject.toml configuration for better dependency management

🔍 Quality Assurance

• All changes are covered by automated tests
• Type safety improvements help catch potential issues early
• Enhanced CI/CD workflow ensures reliable deployments

v0.5.1

🔒 Security

• Added GPG signature verification for Git tags
• Re-tagged with proper GPG signing for better security verification

📝 Notes

• This is a maintenance release that adds proper GPG signing to the repository tags
• No functional changes from v0.5.0
• Future releases will continue to be properly signed for enhanced security verification

Version 0.5.0

Major Changes

• Added --ignore-patterns CLI flag for ignoring specific files/patterns from command line
• Added support for wildcards in pattern ignores
• Added .cursorignore file support

Improvements

• Refactored codebase into logical modules for better maintainability
• Added comprehensive test suite
• Implemented strict typing throughout the codebase
• Improved code organization and structure

Bug Fixes

• Fixed UTC warning in datetime handling
• Refactored load_ignore_specs function for better consistency
• Various typing improvements and fixes

Contributors

Special thanks to:

• @AndrewGerstenslager for implementing the ignore patterns feature
• @himwho for code improvements and fixes

Thanks to:
@AndrewGerstenslager , @himwho , @adorosario

v0.4.4 — interface improvements

This release includes several important features contributed by @caffeinum:

• Accept input directory as first parameter (#8)
• Add pipe output feature (#10)
• Add aliases for repo-to-text and --create-settings (#12)

Changes in this release:

1. Bump version to 0.4.4
2. Include all features from the above PRs
3. Ensure proper GitHub Actions workflow execution

Special thanks to @caffeinum for these valuable contributions! 🙌

v0.4.3 — pyperclip not required

• pyperclip not required
• success message in terminal