Gat
Version large files with Git, without an LFS server
Details
- External ID
- 49868710
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Gat
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393939393939394
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I built Gat because I wanted one thing from data versioning: check out an old Git commit and recover the datasets, model weights, or assets that belong to it. It's basically a lock file for large files.I’d appreciate any feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- large file versioning for git users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward developer CLI tool that computes content hashes of large files, writes lockfiles, and syncs payloads with remote cloud storage.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 99 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #55 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Git-lazy-mount mount a repo without cloning it. Works with ordinary Git · hn · 2026-06-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet · hn · 2026-05-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- JMac-git-drive-backup · github · 2026-09-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Git rewind · hn · 2025-12-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Lockenv · hn · 2025-12-08 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- better-env · hn · 2025-11-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Git-agecrypt · hn · 2026-04-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Git-stage-batch · hn · 2026-04-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
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