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"It would be neat if github could store all its data in git, similar to fossil scm." Yes, that would be very nice - it is unfortunate that you have to make API

by rsync 5y ago

"It would be neat if github could store all its data in git, similar to fossil scm." Yes, that would be very nice - it is unfortunate that you have to make API calls (over http) to get things like issues ... I think you can get the wiki with plain old 'git' ? I forget ...

codetrotter 5y ago
> I think you can get the wiki with plain old 'git' ? I forget ... This is correct. The wiki for a repo is accessible as a separate repository named with a suffix of “.wiki”. So if user foo has a repo bar with an associated wiki, and the repo URL is https://github.com/foo/bar https://github.com/foo/bar then you can clone the repo and the wiki respectively over SSH by: git clone git@github.com:foo/bar.git and git clone git@github.com:foo/bar.wiki.git I wish they’d do the same for all other repository meta data including issues, repository description, etc
- rsync 5y ago
  I believe this is true of gitlab and other providers as well, correct ? That is, you need API calls to get things like issues. Is there a single tool that will handle downloading (and the associated API calls) from all of the major providers ? Or is each API tool specifically for either github or gitlab or sr.ht or whatever ?
  - WorldMaker 5y ago
    Every issue system has its own API and today there's no standard for interchange. It would be interesting to see an attempt to try to build a reusable standard, but I don't know what sort of standards agency exists with the guts to try something like, I don't envy the political battle that would entail, and having seen some of the horrors of bespoke Jira and TFS configurations I'm mostly such a standard would either be too minimalist and disappoint too many people or too maximalist and impossible to build.
    - rsync 5y ago
      Yes, I understand each providers standard is different - and I agree that would be a real mess to wrangle. What I am wondering is are there any tools that use these APIs that have built-in support for multiple provider APIs ? Or does every tool that (helps you manage or download issues, etc.) just built for a particular provider ? Thanks.
      - WorldMaker 5y ago
        git-bug, the one mentioned in the article here, has some documentation on its README of how well its importer/exporter tools support Github, Gitlab, Jira, and Launchpad: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug Most of the other such tools I've seen barely have the resources to import/export a single such API. git-issue only has Github import it looks like. https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue There's perceval which is designed to be a generic archival tool and supports lots of APIs, but only dumps them to source-specific formats and would still need a lot of work if you tried to use issues from different APIs together: https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval

by rsync 5y ago

codetrotter 5y ago

> I think you can get the wiki with plain old 'git' ? I forget ... This is correct. The wiki for a repo is accessible as a separate repository named with a suffix of “.wiki”. So if user foo has a repo bar with an associated wiki, and the repo URL is https://github.com/foo/bar https://github.com/foo/bar then you can clone the repo and the wiki respectively over SSH by: git clone git@github.com:foo/bar.git and git clone git@github.com:foo/bar.wiki.git I wish they’d do the same for all other repository meta data including issues, repository description, etc

rsync 5y ago
I believe this is true of gitlab and other providers as well, correct ? That is, you need API calls to get things like issues. Is there a single tool that will handle downloading (and the associated API calls) from all of the major providers ? Or is each API tool specifically for either github or gitlab or sr.ht or whatever ?
- WorldMaker 5y ago
  Every issue system has its own API and today there's no standard for interchange. It would be interesting to see an attempt to try to build a reusable standard, but I don't know what sort of standards agency exists with the guts to try something like, I don't envy the political battle that would entail, and having seen some of the horrors of bespoke Jira and TFS configurations I'm mostly such a standard would either be too minimalist and disappoint too many people or too maximalist and impossible to build.
  - rsync 5y ago
    Yes, I understand each providers standard is different - and I agree that would be a real mess to wrangle. What I am wondering is are there any tools that use these APIs that have built-in support for multiple provider APIs ? Or does every tool that (helps you manage or download issues, etc.) just built for a particular provider ? Thanks.
    - WorldMaker 5y ago
      git-bug, the one mentioned in the article here, has some documentation on its README of how well its importer/exporter tools support Github, Gitlab, Jira, and Launchpad: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug Most of the other such tools I've seen barely have the resources to import/export a single such API. git-issue only has Github import it looks like. https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue There's perceval which is designed to be a generic archival tool and supports lots of APIs, but only dumps them to source-specific formats and would still need a lot of work if you tried to use issues from different APIs together: https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval