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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by spacenick88 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:20AM (#17213468)
Well that's the beauty of git, as long as anyone anywhere has a checkout of the Repository nothing will be lost. If tags are GPG signed you don't even have to put any trust in the surviveing source. That said for mantained code 99.9% of the time you would just use one of the core develops local copies.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by brodock on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:41AM (#17214310)
Except for issues and pull request metadata, which are important part of the project knowledge.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by yrashk on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:19PM (#17216957)
In SIT (decentralized collaborative information tracker, https://sit.fyi) there's an issue tracking module and an import tool (https://github.com/sit-fyi/sit-import) that allows to convert all issues and PRs into self-contained issues that can be worked with using SIT issue-tracking, so at least there's a relatively smooth way out to decentralized issue tracking.
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