git-fetch-file

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 of latest is way more practical day-to-day.

Reminds me of git fetch-file. “Fetch and sync individual files or globs from other Git repositories, with commit tracking and local-change protection” https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/git-fetch-file

git-annex has some really awkward documentation. You can apparently do, sort of, but not really, the same thing git-fetch-file[1] does, with git-annex: git fetch-file add https://github.com/icculus/physfs.git "**" lib/physfs-main git fetch-file pull `add` creates this at `.git-remote-files`: [file "**"] commit = 9d18d36b5a5207b72f473f05e1b2834e347d8144 target = lib/physfs-main repository = https://github.com/icculus/physfs branch = main But git-annex's documentation goes on and on about a bunch of commands I don't really want to read about, whereas 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

Can anyone tell me their experience with Cursor vs GitHub Copilot? I use GitHub Copilot Pro right now through Visual Studio Code, and 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 page). And the whole repository view that GitHub Copilot and Claude Sonnet 4 have on my projects seems like the same exact thing you get in Cursor, but Cursor for some reason took longer with the exact same models, and I'm not sure why. Maybe they prompt the models differently? I haven't taken a look. Also, Cursor seems to be literally a Visual Studio Code fork! But everyone's talking about it lately, and no one is mentioning this. I don't understand.

I wonder how good it is compared 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 quite nice. I barely had to guide it, and was able to quickly verify its output.