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Re:GitHub was down by theshrike79 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:25AM (#14898336)
Of course the issue data in the repo should be considered read only.

And the amount of actual data needed to store issues is peanuts anyway.

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Re:GitHub was down by hk__2 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @05:39PM (#14905632)
> And the amount of actual data needed to store issues is peanuts anyway.

It’s not. Take something like github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core. There are 15k closed PRs there. There have been 20 new ones today. It’s not rare to have 10-20 comments per PRs; some of them even go over 200. Add CI status, actual PR contents (git patches), comments reactions, edits, labels, milestones, assignees, reviews, projects.

IMHO having a tool to fetch issues locally is a good idea; storing them in the repo is not.

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