Hello-World

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!

>Like .* ? Assuming your question is not a joke... The partner has to email the regex to secret-scanning@github.com for their approval. See the steps at: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni... Once it's in the scanning system, the partner receives JSON messages alerts such as: [ { "token":"NMIfyYncKcRALEXAMPLE", "type":"mycompany_api_token", "url":"https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/blob/12345600b9cbe38a219f39a9941c9319b600c0…", "source":"content" } ] So instead of ""token":"NMIfyYncKcRALEXAMPLE"," -- the private repo owners would worry about '.*' regex leaking full source code instead of API credentials such as ""token":"#include <stdio.h>\nmain(){\nprintf("hello world");\n}"," The above scenario requires believing the following: - Microsoft/Github is techni