Repomix Files

This release brings significant performance improvements across the board—faster startup, optimized file collection, and reduced package size—along with a smoother CLI experience for remote repositories!

What's New 🚀

Auto-detect Remote URLs Without --remote Flag (#1145)

You can now pass GitHub URLs directly as positional arguments without the --remote flag:

:::bash
# Before
repomix --remote https://github.com/user/repo

# Now also works!
repomix https://github.com/user/repo

The CLI automatically detects explicit remote URLs (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) in positional arguments and treats them as remote repository targets.

Improvements ⚡

Node.js Module Compile Cache for Faster Startup (#1181)

Enabled Node.js V8 compile cache (available in Node.js 22.8.0+) for approximately 10% faster startup time. The compiled module cache is stored automatically and speeds up subsequent launches.

Optimized File Collection with UTF-8 Fast Path (#1155)

Improved file collection performance with two key optimizations:

• UTF-8 fast path: Skips expensive encoding detection for files that are valid UTF-8, which covers the vast majority of source code files
• Promise pool: Replaced worker threads with a lightweight promise pool for better concurrency control

Streaming tar.gz Extraction for Remote Repositories (#1153)

Replaced ZIP archive download with streaming tar.gz extraction for remote repository operations:

• Better handling of large repositories

Smaller npm Package (#1092)

Removed unused source maps from the npm package, reducing lib/ size from 2.4MB to 1.2MB (~50% reduction).

Bug Fixes 🐛

Skip Retry on Archive Extraction Error (#1149)

Fixed an issue where archive extraction errors would trigger unnecessary retries. Extraction errors are now treated as non-retryable, providing faster error feedback.

How to Update

:::bash
npm update -g repomix

As always, if you have any issues or suggestions, please let us know on GitHub issues or our Discord community.