Can I get around the limitation of 1000 files limit for importing a folder for an existing project? I am trying to edit a large project found on github that has around 4000 files.
Hi, not without changing the source code of bolt yourself.
But the limit is there cause bolt/llms can not handle that much files. So even you get it in, I dont think you can work with it and get something done.
Bolt is currently sending every time everything to the provider. So huge token usage and request size.
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I guess I could try to segment particular functionalities and only use a few files and use it that way, but I am not a programmer so not sure how that would work, and probably bolt is not good with that either, since it wouldnt be working with the whole code
I would recommend try to use other tools like Cursor / Windsurf / Aider / etc…
Think they fit, at least for now, better for your usecase. I think in a few months maybe bolt is capable of working with it as well.
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