New Project Idea: repozip

[ata-sesli]

Repository packaging tool for Octacity

I’m considering building a small CLI tool as the first Octacity project.

The idea came from a simple problem: web-based LLMs cannot browse our local workspaces, so sharing a repository often means manually selecting and uploading files.

The tool would package a Git repository while:

• respecting .gitignore
• excluding .git
• including either the committed state or the current working tree
• supporting formats such as ZIP and Markdown

The Markdown output could later become more than a source-code dump, with repository structure, language-aware code blocks, symbol indexes, and links between functions and definitions.

The current name ideas are repozip and something broader, since the tool may eventually support more than archive creation.

I’d like to hear thoughts about the idea, possible use cases, and what features it should include.
All contributions are welcome.