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Fetch and sync individual files or globs from other Git repositories, with commit tracking and local-change protection

6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2025-08-06 · latest 2026-09-05

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  1. I find https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file more useful. It's manifest is nearly the same as a .gitmodules file, but having specific control over what files you want to pull, or what commit or tag, or just the equivalent…
    comment by bellowsgulch · 2026-09-05 · in Git Submodules as a Package Manager
  2. …files or globs from other Git repositories, with commit tracking and local-change protection” https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file
    comment by bellowsgulch · 2026-07-01 · in Google copybara: moving code between repositories
  3. …those two lines and that .git-remote-files manifest just told you what git-fetch-file does. [1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file
    comment by andrewmcwatters · 2025-08-25 · in Git-Annex
  4. …tried Cursor, but Cursor just seemed like a more expensive GitHub Copilot Pro. Like, I'm publishing https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file right now with Claude Sonnet 4 (thank you for recently upvoting that to the front…
    comment by andrewmcwatters · 2025-08-11 · in Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer
  5. …to Claude Sonnet 4, and when it's coming to GitHub Copilot. I almost exclusively wrote and released https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file yesterday with GPT 4o and Claude Sonnet 4, and the latter's agentic behavior was…
    comment by andrewmcwatters · 2025-08-07 · in GPT-5 for Developers