<story><title>Show HN: Hubfs – File System for GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/winfsp/hubfs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish9</author><text>Or you could, you know, clone the repository into a local working tree.</text></item><item><author>billziss</author><text>HUBFS is a file system for GitHub and Git. Git repositories and their contents are represented as regular directories and files and are accessible by any application, without the application having any knowledge that it is really accessing a remote Git repository. The repositories are writable and allow editing files and running build operations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza</author><text>Have you ever read this HN comment from 2007 before? [0]&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I have a few qualms with this app...  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Different paths towards the same outcome should multiply, so we can increase the surface area of the bandages on the different pain points along the way.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9224&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Hubfs – File System for GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/winfsp/hubfs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish9</author><text>Or you could, you know, clone the repository into a local working tree.</text></item><item><author>billziss</author><text>HUBFS is a file system for GitHub and Git. Git repositories and their contents are represented as regular directories and files and are accessible by any application, without the application having any knowledge that it is really accessing a remote Git repository. The repositories are writable and allow editing files and running build operations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>Snarky drive-by comments like this are the worst part of HN.</text></comment>