One way to ask questions about your GitHub repository is through GitHub copilot chat inside the GitHub website. Just click on the Copilot icon next to the Search field and a conversation window pops up where you can start asking questions about your repository.
Although this works quite nice, it limits you to what GitHub Copilot has to offer. The good news is that there are some tools that allow you to use your GitHub data with other LLM’s.
How does it work?
Each of these tools work in a similar way as they read through all available data(source code, documentation, PR info,…) in your GitHub repo to build up one big context file. For example if I feed one of my repositories into Uithub, I get this file back:
This contains the full file tree, all the documentation, source code and so on…
This file can than be given to the LLM of your choice(preferably one that accepts a large token size) to ask questions about it.
Right now I’m aware of the following tools that do this:
UitHub
Available here: Easily Ask Your LLM Coding Questions
Gitingest
Available here: Gitingest
Github.gg
Available here: GitHub.gg - Repository Analysis
Any other that you now?
More information
Asking GitHub Copilot questions in GitHub - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs