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Re:Dear GitHub by ben174 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:57PM (#10904897)
By their very nature, git repos are one of the easiest things to migrate. Simply point at a new remote and push, and that's really it. It means that, unlike many other services, I could see GitHub being completely abandoned almost over night. If something better came along.
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Re:Dear GitHub by autoreleasepool on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:16PM (#10905103)
Agreed. This is the point of git. There is no centralized repository.
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Re:Dear GitHub by mynewtb on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:08PM (#10905025)
You would lose the issues.
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Re:Dear GitHub by albertoleal on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:12PM (#10905062)
There are lot of tools to migrate them. Example, github.com/babel/babel has migrated their issues to phabricator.babeljs.io
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Re:Dear GitHub by detaro on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:18PM (#10905122)
True, but thanks to the API and their relatively simple structure it's reasonably easy to at least copy their contents as well. Linking them correctly to user accounts on a new platform is probably the biggest issue.
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Re:Dear GitHub by johnmaguire2013 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:49PM (#10905383)
Users with public SSH keys would be easy: https://github.com/JohnMaguire.keys

When a new user signs up, ask them for their existing Github username and to upload an SSH key that matches.

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Re:Dear GitHub by fosk on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:13PM (#10905078)
I am pretty sure that a potential competitor will use GitHub's APIs to import issues as well.
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Re:Dear GitHub by duncan_bayne on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:58PM (#10906551)
+1
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Re:Dear GitHub by twothamendment on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:12PM (#10905060)
You say that like it is a bad thing...
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