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title: "How do you review a codebase with DeepSeek when the whole repo won’t fit in context?"  
description: "How do you review a codebase with DeepSeek when the whole repo won’t fit in context?"  
author: "Arnaud Simon"  
published: 2026-10-15  
updated: 2026-10-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162306/how-do-you-review-a-codebase-with-deepseek-when-the-whole-repo-won-t-fit-in-context  
category: "AI-Assisted Coding"  
tags: ["DeepSeek", "Programming", "Code review"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How do you review a codebase with DeepSeek when the whole repo won’t fit in context?

I want to ask DeepSeek for help tracing a bug across several parts of a repository, but pasting the entire codebase is not realistic. Sending files one at a time feels just as risky: the model may miss the relationship between a caller, a shared utility, and the failing code.

What workflow has worked for reviewing a **large repository with DeepSeek**? Do you start with a file map and add relevant files as questions come up, or use a local search tool to gather context first? I’m trying to avoid both overloading the prompt and leaving out the one dependency that matters.


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