Re: tracking a file from another project in my own project

picca [off-list ref] writes:

This way all strbug bugs corrected in git.git will be apply
automatically to my own project.

If I were you I'd probably just keep git.git as a submodule in
your project and have two symlinks from your toplevel pointing
at git.git/strbuf.[ch] (or from src/ to ../git.git/strbuf.[ch]).

Or "merge -s subtree".