Git-fetch-file – Sync files from other repos with commit tracking and safety

I’m imagining some sort of art project where people try and figure out the most complicated software you can make entirely off files stitched together from different repos.

Hi HN, thanks for sending this to the front page.

I'm finding myself needing some resources from other projects in a way that ecosystem-specific dependency management isn't going to help, or I'd be pulling in too many files.

Submodules aren't the answer, and some other existing git user-defined commands don't seem to do what I need either.

I want a file from another repository, and the ability to pin it, and track it in the future, or just always be up-to-date by using the default HEAD commit value set in `.git-remote-files`.

    git fetch-file add https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World README
    git fetch-file pull

Let's me track the README file from the octocat/Hello-World repository, and pull down the file. A record of it is then saved in `.git-remote-files`.

Let me know if you have any questions!