Connection: Global Codebase Awareness
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What is Connection?
Connection (Global RAG) Tabnine to your organization’s code by extending the available context for to include remote code repositories, even if they’re not part of the local IDE workspace.
This enhances AI code suggestions, making them more accurate and relevant to the organization.
In many cases, the relevant context for Tabnine is located in remote repositories that are not included in the current project.
For example, users may need specific code that resides outside the IDE or suggestions that rely on patterns from the remote codebase.
The Connection feature is available to enterprise customers in all deployments.
To enable this feature for your team, please contact your account manager.
The Enterprise team admin manages the connected repositories. The admin can establish connections to Git providers using:
SSH: By configuring Tabnine’s SSH key
HTTPS: By using access tokens from the Git providers
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Tabnine Chat may generate answers using context from remote repositories. The exact references used will appear in the "References" section.
Quickly access relevant remote code references by clicking the corresponding link. The browser will open the original source code directly within the connected Git provider.
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Indexing and retrieving chat answers from remote repositories generally works for most standard Git providers.
Navigating to remote repositories' references may not work consistently due to variations in URL patterns.
Connections are managed at the team level.
Each user only has access to the repositories that are connected to their specific team.
Your connected repositories are cloned to Tabnine servers for indexing and are deleted immediately after indexing is complete.
The RAG index is securely retained on Tabnine servers and remains private.
A periodic background process checks for updates in the connected repositories and refreshes the corresponding index when needed.
This update process can take up to one hour.
You can connect Perforce depots for global connection indexing.
On the Context enhancement page, scroll down to Connect external Perforce depots.
Press Add depot.
Enter the depot path below and select an available Perforce server.
Then click Connect.
Indexing might take a few minutes. When finished, the Perforce depot will be available in your context engine.
To remove the depot, press the X. You can also change the depot path by clicking the edit icon.
Specify which repositories are relevant for Tabnine to use as context. Learn more about .
Read more on the .
