Show HN: I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any GitHub repository

mondov 1 year ago |

Doesn't the GitHub copilot do the same? What are the advantages of this?

simssousa15 1 year ago | |

Free, no need to clone the repo and on the web.

vunderba 1 year ago | | |

That is exactly what GH Copilot does - if you're subscribed to it, it adds an AI conversation button to any Github repo you visit in the browser. There's no need to clone the repo. However it's not free obviously...

jasonjmcghee 1 year ago | | |

it actually is free - the in-web chat is part of free tier, and I'm not aware of any limits. in-IDE use does have limits

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/about-github-copilot/subs...

tmtvl 1 year ago |

Wow, so which license are you using which is compatible with all licenses used on GitHub?

jasonjmcghee 1 year ago | |

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that burden fall on the users of this product? If that end user uses the output in a new project.

I suppose OP likely has a responsibility to post a link to the license whenever chatting with that repo- but I don't believe his product would require special licensing itself- right?

cocodill 1 year ago |

why do you want me to sign in via github?

namaria 1 year ago | |

Requesting read and write access to all repos public and private no less.

simssousa15 1 year ago | | |

The GitHub api doesn't allow for read only to private repos :(

Needs to be this way or no access to private repos. I can add the possibility to choose if people have a problem with the permissions

lukew3 1 year ago | | |

Yes, I'd rather not share access to my private repos with an untrusted party. I would like to try it with public ones though

jasonjmcghee 1 year ago | | |

You could add an option for the user to paste a token (fine grained etc) to retrieve only from repositories they grant via the token (and never write access)- and they can revoke at any time.

simssousa15 1 year ago | | |

Just added the option to choose. You can now give less permissions and only access public repos :)

simssousa15 1 year ago | |

github api needs a personal token unfortunately. without each user signin it reaches the rate limit very fast