How to Understand a New Codebase in GitHub with Littlebird

New repo, day one. Ask it, don't read all of it.

First week on a new team, a repository you've never seen, and the README stops at "npm install." So you open file after file, building a mental map one guess at a time.

Littlebird sees the file you're staring at, so it can meet you where you are. Connect GitHub and it reads the files and finds the code for you.

How do I get up to speed on a new codebase?

Ask Littlebird what something does and it can read the contents of any file in your repositories and search code across them -- so you learn the shape of a codebase by asking, instead of opening every file. Because it also reads your active window, you can ask about the file already in front of you.

Read any file without cloning half the repo

Littlebird can read the contents of any file -- code, configs, or docs -- straight into Chat, so "what does this module do?" gets answered without a tab-hunt through the tree.

Find where things actually live

Littlebird can search code across your repositories for any function, pattern, or string, and search your repositories by name, topic, or keyword -- so you find the right file and the right repo by asking.

See how it got here

To understand a decision, you need its history. Littlebird can list and surface commits and read the full details of the pull request that introduced a piece of code -- so the "why" comes with the "what." The full set of what Littlebird reads across GitHub is on the GitHub integration page.

Ask your way in. Skip the cold read.

Common questions

Do I need to connect GitHub for this to work?

Littlebird starts working on its own by paying attention to your active window, so you get value the moment you install it. But reading and searching across a repository needs GitHub connected -- it takes a few seconds in Settings > Integrations.

Does Littlebird train on my code?

No. Littlebird never trains models on your data and never sells it. Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and you can delete it at any time.

Connect GitHub

Connect GitHub in Settings > Integrations, then ask what a file does or where a function lives. See everything Littlebird does with GitHub on the GitHub integration page.

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