Limitations

Currently, the parsed repository cannot exceed 4.5MB. This is due to the request size limit of Vercel Functions. Submitting larger repositories will most likely result in a 500 error during the data submission phase of the codebase-dump parser.

Workaround 1

To overcome this limitation, you can use a .cdigestignore file in the root of your repository. This file works similarly to .gitignore and allows you to specify files and directories that should be excluded from the parsing process. This can be useful for ignoring large files or entire directory trees that aren’t essential for the code audit.

For example, in the Code Audits app itself, you could add the following to .cdigestignore to ignore all UI components:

src/components

This would prevent the src/components directory and all its contents from being included in the codebase sent for analysis.

Workaround 2

codebase_dump has a neat argument --ignore-top-large-files, that defines how many of top largest files should be ignored when submitting the code to CodeAudits.ai.

Example: generate a markdown file while ignoring top 5 largest files and push it to the audits app codeaudits.ai:

codebase-dump project-dir -o markdown --audit-upload --ignore-top-large-files=5

For a detailed explanation and working examples, please check out Code Audits - Quickstart Guide - Ignore Example.