fuggit: for when you just can’t put that one annoying file in git

You know the feeling. You’re making a quick dirty hack to a file on a remote machine. The file isn’t under version control. You want to have the convenience of editing the file locally, and you want the ability to roll back your changes. Putting the remote file under version control is just too hard, so what do you say? fuggit.

Specifically:

fuggit add remote.hostname.com/etc/file.name

this will grab /etc/file.name from the machine remote.hostname.com; save it as remote.hostname.com/etc/file.name under $PWD. The file will be added and committed to git.

fuggit pull remote.hostname/etc/file.name

can be used to refresh your local copy of the file. Any local changes will be preserved; any remote changes will result in a new commit.

fuggit vimdiff remote.hostname/etc/file.name

will open a vimdiff window showing your local working copy of the file and the remote copy. Thanks to the magic of vim, any changes you make to the remote file will be pushed to the servce once you close the file. Any local changes will be left for you to commit as you see fit.

mkdir localhistory
cd localhistory
git init .

sudo pip install fuggit

virtualenv .
source bin/activate
pip install fuggit