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Re:Gitlab 10.0 released by sumitgt on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:18PM (#15316807)
Given that git has such a distributed nature, couldn't you simply move over your code to Gitlab if and when Github actually is on the verge of shutting down?

I'm glad that Gitlab exists, however the lazy person in me sees no immediate need to use it. Even if all Github datacenters are destroyed by an asteroid, copies of repos I care about will still be around in enough people's computers to be able to recover.

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Re:Gitlab 10.0 released by elmigranto on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:31PM (#15316889)
What about issues, wiki and other non-git data?
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Re:Gitlab 10.0 released by mholt on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:49PM (#15316993)
(Nit: The GitHub wikis are also git repositories. https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...)

But anyway, the same argument could be made of an asteroid hitting your own datacenter with self-hosted GitLab instead.

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Re:Gitlab 10.0 released by johannes1234321 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @06:46AM (#15319152)
Those can be extracted. Way more relevant imo: Links to your repo. For a mildly successful project a key part are external links pointing to your project. Those will point to a wrong location and you won't have control.
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Re:Gitlab 10.0 released by lloeki on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:10AM (#15318592)
IIRC GitLab can import GitHub issues straight from the UI.
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Re:Gitlab 10.0 released by zegerjan on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:37AM (#15318671)
Also PRs will be imported, milestones, labels and more: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/import/github.html#o...
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