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It great, but I concern about exporting data out from GitHub for whatever a reason. Is there a backup anything or we just have to dig data out from API?
by kassner 13y ago
It great, but I concern about exporting data out from GitHub for whatever a reason. Is there a backup anything or we just have to dig data out from API?
- thomaslangston 13y agoEvery repo can be cloned down as normal. ~~I'm not certain about the issue tracking.~~ Edit: according to a quick Google search issues can be exported in JSON format.
- hunvreus 13y agoIssues are disposable data, it has an expiration date. Once you closed an issue, there's little value in it. Most of the valuable data ends up in the Wiki (or in code), and Wikis are actually Git repositories. You can't make it easier to backup. Wanna try it? Take any repository, for example Hubot: https://github.com/github/hubot https://github.com/github/hubot. Now go ahead and run: git clone https://github.com/github/hubot.wiki.git https://github.com/github/hubot.wiki.git
- kassner 13y agoI didn't know the ".wiki" notation for downloading it. Thanks!
- kassner 13y agoIssues are an important part of a product/library that is evolving. If you loose an edge case bug, you could take months to face it again.
- bergie 13y agoYou could also use the GitHub Issue API http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/ http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/ to backup the issue data