Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by crankylinuxuser on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:18PM (#17222168)

I'd recommend running your own FossilSCM server. It supports full code repo, wiki, bugtracking, and more. And it's free software to boot.

I'm looking to see if it's feasible to write a github->fossil layer to make it easy for programmers to dump to local. Right now, Git is easy to dump... but those issues and wiki support isnt dumpable yet..

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jaegerpicker on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:37PM (#17222356)

if you mean dump from GH the wiki is a separate git repo. just clone <our_project>.wiki.git instead of <our_project>.git

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by crankylinuxuser on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:57PM (#17222500)

Unfortunately, that misses the bulk of user communications. Those bug reports and issues are also tremendously important. And since they link back to commits, its essential to obtain that history as well and maintain the appropriate link between the 2.

Else, changes were made for "reasons", and those justifications are effectively lost.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by yrashk on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:26PM (#17223755)

This was the main reason I started developing https://sit.fyi. It allows you to carry issues, discussions, patches as files (for example, in a git repo) in a decentralized way and has a tool that allows to import from GitHub

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