diff --git a/nob.c b/nob.c
index a580562..f830103 100644
--- a/nob.c
+++ b/nob.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const char *test_names[] = {
     "sb_appendf",
     "da_foreach",
     "temp_aligned_alloc",
+    "test_git_fetch"
 };
 #define test_names_count ARRAY_LEN(test_names)
 
diff --git a/nob.h b/nob.h
index 737f61f..52eec21 100644
--- a/nob.h
+++ b/nob.h
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ NOBDEF bool nob_copy_file(const char *src_path, const char *dst_path);
 NOBDEF bool nob_copy_directory_recursively(const char *src_path, const char *dst_path);
 NOBDEF bool nob_read_entire_dir(const char *parent, Nob_File_Paths *children);
 NOBDEF bool nob_write_entire_file(const char *path, const void *data, size_t size);
+NOBDEF bool nob_git_fetch(const char *repo_url, const char *dst_dir, const char *branch, bool shallow);
+
 NOBDEF Nob_File_Type nob_get_file_type(const char *path);
 NOBDEF bool nob_delete_file(const char *path);
 
@@ -952,6 +954,35 @@ NOBDEF bool nob_copy_file(const char *src_path, const char *dst_path)
 #endif
 }
 
+NOBDEF bool nob_git_fetch(const char *repo_url, const char *dst_dir, const char *branch, bool shallow)
+{
+    NOB_ASSERT(repo_url && dst_dir);
+
+    /* we can do more git processing here, like checking if the current folder is dirty, 
+    or if the brnach/tag is the correct one. etc */
+    if (nob_file_exists(dst_dir) == 1) return true;
+
+    nob_mkdir_if_not_exists(dst_dir);
+
+    Nob_Cmd cmd = {0};    
+    nob_cmd_append(&cmd, "git", "clone");
+    if (shallow) {
+        nob_cmd_append(&cmd, "--depth", "1");
+    }
+    if (branch && branch[0] != '\0') {
+        nob_cmd_append(&cmd, "--branch", branch);
+    }
+    nob_cmd_append(&cmd, repo_url, dst_dir);
+
+    if (!nob_cmd_run(&cmd)) {
+        nob_log(NOB_ERROR, "git clone failed for %s into %s", repo_url, dst_dir);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    nob_log(NOB_INFO, "Repository %s is available under %s", repo_url, dst_dir);
+    return true;
+}
+
 NOBDEF void nob_cmd_render(Nob_Cmd cmd, Nob_String_Builder *render)
 {
     for (size_t i = 0; i < cmd.count; ++i) {
diff --git a/tests/test_git_fetch.c b/tests/test_git_fetch.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4afc14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_git_fetch.c
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#define NOB_IMPLEMENTATION
+#include "nob.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <time.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    const char *dst = "flag_h";
+    const char *repo_url = "https://github.com/tsoding/flag.h";
+    
+    if (!nob_git_fetch(repo_url, dst, NULL, true)) {
+        nob_log(NOB_ERROR, "nob_git_fetch failed");
+        return 1;
+    }
+    
+    srand(time(NULL) );
+    int expected_number = rand();
+    char expected_str[32];
+    snprintf(expected_str, sizeof (expected_str), "%d", expected_number);
+
+    char main_c[256];
+    int main_c_len = snprintf(main_c, sizeof (main_c),
+        "#include <stdio.h>\n"
+        "#include \"flag.h\"\n"
+        "int main(void){ (void)printf(\"%s\"); return 0; }\n",
+        expected_str);
+
+    if (!nob_write_entire_file("git_fetch_main.c", main_c, (size_t)main_c_len)) {
+        nob_log(NOB_ERROR, "Could not write git_fetch_main.c");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    Nob_Cmd cmd = {0};
+    nob_cmd_append(&cmd, "cc", "-I", dst, "-o", "./git_fetch_main", "git_fetch_main.c");
+    if (!nob_cmd_run(&cmd)) {
+        nob_log(NOB_ERROR, "compile failed");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    nob_cmd_append(&cmd, "./git_fetch_main");
+    if (!nob_cmd_run(&cmd, .stdout_path = "./git_fetch_main_out.txt")) {
+        nob_log(NOB_ERROR, "run failed");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    Nob_String_Builder sb = {0};
+
+    if (!nob_read_entire_file("./git_fetch_main_out.txt", &sb)) return 1;
+
+    Nob_String_View out = nob_sb_to_sv(sb);
+
+    Nob_String_View trimmed = nob_sv_trim(out);
+    if (!nob_sv_eq(trimmed, nob_sv_from_cstr(expected_str))) {
+        nob_log(NOB_ERROR, "Unexpected output (see file)");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    nob_log(NOB_INFO, "git_fetch_main test passed");
+    return 0;
+}