Add minimal handling for broken symlinks in generate_output_content (#32)

* Add minimal handling for broken symlinks in generate_output_content

* core: simplify generate_output_content

* pylint adjust no-else-return

.cursor/index.mdc

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+---
+alwaysApply: true
+---
+
 # repo-to-text
 
 ## Project Overview

AGENTS.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.cursor/index.mdc

CLAUDE.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.cursor/index.mdc

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "repo-to-text"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 authors = [
     { name = "Kirill Markin", email = "markinkirill@gmail.com" },
 ]

repo_to_text/core/core.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Core functionality for repo-to-text
 
 import os
 import subprocess
+import platform
 from typing import Tuple, Optional, List, Dict, Any, Set
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from importlib.machinery import ModuleSpec
@@ -36,12 +37,20 @@ def get_tree_structure(
 
 def run_tree_command(path: str) -> str:
     """Run the tree command and return its output."""
+    if platform.system() == "Windows":
+        cmd = ["cmd", "/c", "tree", "/a", "/f", path]
+    else:
+        cmd = ["tree", "-a", "-f", "--noreport", path]
+    
     result = subprocess.run(
-        ['tree', '-a', '-f', '--noreport', path],
+        cmd,
         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+        text=True,
+        encoding='utf-8',
         check=True
     )
-    return result.stdout.decode('utf-8')
+    return result.stdout
 
 def filter_tree_output(
         tree_output: str,
@@ -343,6 +352,33 @@ def save_repo_to_text(
         return output_filepaths[0]
     return ""
 
+def _read_file_content(file_path: str) -> str:
+    """Read file content, handling binary files and broken symlinks.
+    
+    Args:
+        file_path: Path to the file to read
+        
+    Returns:
+        str: File content or appropriate message for special cases
+    """
+    try:
+        with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            return f.read()
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        logging.debug('Handling binary file contents: %s', file_path)
+        with open(file_path, 'rb') as f_bin:
+            binary_content: bytes = f_bin.read()
+        return binary_content.decode('latin1')
+    except FileNotFoundError as e:
+        # Minimal handling for bad symlinks
+        if os.path.islink(file_path) and not os.path.exists(file_path):
+            try:
+                target = os.readlink(file_path)
+            except OSError:
+                target = ''
+            return f"[symlink] -> {target}"
+        raise e
+
 
 def generate_output_content(
         path: str,
@@ -417,17 +453,8 @@ def generate_output_content(
             cleaned_relative_path = relative_path.replace('./', '', 1)
             
             _add_chunk_to_output(f'\n<content full_path="{cleaned_relative_path}">\n')
-            
+            file_content = _read_file_content(file_path)
-            try:
-                with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-                    file_content = f.read()
             _add_chunk_to_output(file_content)
-            except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                logging.debug('Handling binary file contents: %s', file_path)
-                with open(file_path, 'rb') as f_bin:
-                    binary_content: bytes = f_bin.read()
-                _add_chunk_to_output(binary_content.decode('latin1')) # Add decoded binary
-            
             _add_chunk_to_output('\n</content>\n')
 
     _add_chunk_to_output('\n</repo-to-text>\n')