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Laws change and there are also a bunch of other ways to get banned from your code on GH. And once that happens, you have nowhere to go. Much easier to migrate
by INTPenis 6y ago
Laws change and there are also a bunch of other ways to get banned from your code on GH. And once that happens, you have nowhere to go.
Much easier to migrate to a Gitlab instance. And they know this! Which is why it's so fun to see Github dancing around these issues lately. Finally some healthy competition.
I'd love to know how many times MS have tried to buy Gitlab. :D
- Tsarbomb 6y agoI love how obviously biased you are for Gitlab, it's almost like you don't understand how Git works. It is a DISTRIBUTED version control system. If GitHub gets banned, change your origin and push.
- INTPenis 6y agoYou seem to forget about Issues, Milestones, Projects, Wiki docs and more.
- SirYandi 6y agoProbably a naive question, but is there some way for all these elements to held in a git repo as well? Just move all your issues/trackers to another platform?
- INTPenis 6y agoIt can probably be done but some projects have thousands of issues, thousands of PRs with dozens of comments in every thread. It doesn't seem like a good idea to make your git repo store all that data.
- alexeldeib 6y agoThere are some approaches, e.g. https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue But I don't think there's much standardization around this type of git usage, and I'm not sure how efficient it would be for large repos.
- imhoguy 6y agoand users. GH, GL, BB are kind of dev social netwoks. Project assets can be archivised/mirrored easily with tools or API scripts, but there is no way to link them back to live users. Community needs to be rebuild at new place and thay is lot of effort.
- dang 6y agoCan you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something else here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html