Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by monotypical on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:54PM (#17221919)

Changing the remote doesn't migrate anything in the issue tracker, merge requests, webhooks, pages or wiki

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by static_noise on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:06PM (#17222049)

Migrating from GitHub to GitLab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI

this adresses some of the issues.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by johannes1234321 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:11PM (#17222590)

It doesn't solve the number one issue: External references to your project will all still point to github.com since that's where the project homepage (aka README.md) is.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by mort96 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:30PM (#17222727)

If GitHub does get sold to MS and I end up moving to GitLab, I'll probably push one last commit to the GitHub repo adding a header saying the project has moved, with a link to the GitLab repo. It's not perfect, but it wouldn't be too bad.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by johannes1234321 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:37PM (#17222770)

Until MSFT/GitHub does what Sourceforge.net did - taking over project sites from projects which moved away and adding malware (adware/spyware) into those ;)

(I believe with all critique on Microsoft they aren't as bad, but want to exemplarize the risk)

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by askvictor on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:18PM (#17223711)

It might just be cleaner to close the github repo and when other projects find a 404 where it used to be, they'll have to use super detective skills (i.e. Google it) to find the project's new home. And if they can't find it that way, then nothing of value was lost. (Yes, yes, I know it's more nuanced than that, but if you wanted permanence, you'd be hosting on your own domain, right?)

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by suby on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:13PM (#17223677)

This would be a great way for them to accelerate migration away from Github.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jacques_chester on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:56PM (#17223287)

I expect Google could be convinced to accept certain files or metadata in a README as equivalent to a 301 permanent redirect, meaning searches will remain effective. That would account for a lot, especially if Chrome begins to honour it.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by lemming on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:52PM (#17222872)

Actually, the #1 issue is that everyone can easily file an issue/contribute in other ways at Github without having to create another account to do so.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by st1ck on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:32AM (#17225682)

You can sign in with your Github account to gitlab.com.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by slaymaker1907 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:07PM (#17222060)

I seem to remember that under the GDPR, vendors have to make data exportable. I wonder if people could use that for GitHub issues and the Wiki.

GitHub pages is super easy to move except for getting users to know the new domain.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Symbiote on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:12PM (#17222593)

The GDPR only applies to personal data, which won't be most of the content on GitHub.

Anyway, there are APIs which one can use to export issues.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by dannyw on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:11PM (#17223001)

Personal data is extremely broad and is any data that can be identified to an individual. If my photos are Facebook are personal data, then so is my code on GitHub (even if some people are professional photographers or programmers).

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Y7ZCQtNo39 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:05PM (#17222047)

It wouldn't be seamless. But it wouldn't be difficult for a competitor to create a "competitor import" feature that moved over most of it in a few clicks.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by t_treesap on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:41PM (#17222799)

It's possible, but I think it's a stretch to say it "wouldn't be difficult."

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