Configuration

copit uses a copit.toml file to track your project's target directory and all copied sources.

File format

[project]
target = "vendor"

[[sources]]
path = "vendor/prek-identify"
source = "github:j178/prek@master/crates/prek-identify"
ref = "master"
commit = "abc123def456..."
copied_at = "2026-03-07T08:46:51Z"
exclude_modified = ["Cargo.toml", "src/lib.rs"]

Fields

[project]

Field	Description
target	Default directory where source files are copied into

[[sources]]

Each entry in the sources array represents one copied source:

Field	Description
path	Local path where the source was copied
source	Original source string used to fetch the file
ref	User-specified version string (branch, tag, or SHA)
commit	Resolved commit SHA from GitHub API (GitHub sources only)
copied_at	Timestamp of when the source was last copied
exclude_modified	List of relative paths within the source to skip on re-add. With --backup, the new version is saved as <file>.orig