Glimpse

A blazingly fast tool for peeking at codebases. Perfect for loading your codebase into an LLM's context.

Features

• 🚀 Fast parallel file processing
• 🌳 Tree-view of codebase structure
• 📝 Source code content viewing
• ⚙️ Configurable defaults
• 📋 Clipboard support
• 🎨 Customizable file type detection
• 🥷 Respects .gitignore automatically

Installation

cargo install glimpse

Usage

Basic usage:

glimpse /path/to/project

Common options:

# Show hidden files
glimpse -H /path/to/project

# Only show tree structure
glimpse -o tree /path/to/project

# Copy output to clipboard
glimpse -c /path/to/project

# Save output to file
glimpse -f output.txt /path/to/project

# Include specific file types
glimpse -i "*.rs,*.go" /path/to/project

# Exclude patterns
glimpse -e "target/*,dist/*" /path/to/project

Configuration

Glimpse uses a config file located at:

• Linux/macOS: ~/.config/glimpse/config.toml
• Windows: %APPDATA%\glimpse\config.toml

Example configuration:

max_size = 10485760  # 10MB
max_depth = 20
default_output_format = "both"
default_excludes = [
    "**/.git/**",
    "**/target/**",
    "**/node_modules/**"
]

Troubleshooting

1. File too large: Adjust max_size in config
2. Missing files: Check hidden flag and exclude patterns
3. Performance issues: Try adjusting thread count with -t

License

MIT