The author explored the Repomix tool to find features for their own project. They discovered a useful comment removal feature that strips comments from source code. This feature helps reduce token counts when feeding code into Large Language Models. The comment removal is implemented as a boolean option in the configuration schema. The configuration is loaded and merged, with command-line arguments taking precedence over configuration files and default values. The tool uses Commander.js for argument parsing and Tinypool for worker-based parallel processing. File content processing occurs in `fileProcessContent.ts`, where the comment removal logic is conditionally applied. The actual comment stripping is handled by manipulators defined in `fileManipulate.ts`, with each file type having its specific method for removing comments and docstrings. The `removeComments` function orchestrates the removal of docstrings and hash comments, followed by trimming trailing whitespace from lines.
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