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> I'm gonna guess that Microsoft GitHub (tm) would shut you down pretty quickly if you tried to clone tens or hundreds of thousands of repos in a short window o
by EvanAnderson 4y ago
> I'm gonna guess that Microsoft GitHub (tm) would shut you down pretty quickly if you tried to clone tens or hundreds of thousands of repos in a short window of time, b/c of course that's sketchy/abusive use of their infrastructure, right?
ArchiveTeam has a distributed Github archive project[0]. It's unclear what the status is right now. It seems like a worthwhile idea.
[0] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/GitHub#Archive_Team_project https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/GitHub#Archive_Team_p...