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The beauty of `git clone` is that there are copies of the repository on many thousands of hard drives (including mine -- last pulled a few days back). The main
by cookiecaper 6y ago
The beauty of `git clone` is that there are copies of the repository on many thousands of hard drives (including mine -- last pulled a few days back). The main loss at this point is the metadata stored in GitHub's proprietary addons, like issues.
We can hope this inspires a) greater suspicion toward proprietary players that are sitting atop open-source work like GitHub (they're not the only one by any stretch); and b) greater adoption of systems that distribute the software's entire history together, including documentation and bug reports, e.g. Fossil.
- justinclift 6y agoIf no-one else has anything more recent, would you be ok to put yours online somewhere for others to grab?
- justinclift 6y agoTurns out it's not needed. There are up-to-date ones already around. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873953
- dnlhtz 6y agoI'm the Founder of BackHub and that's one of the reasons why we offer backups for GitHub repositories, incl. the metadata! Reach out for a discount.
- aabbcc1241 6y agoAnd there is GitCenter, which is git over zeronet (a p2p network similar to BitTorrent but for dynamic content)