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Re:Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems by rvz on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:06PM (#22960579)
Well a loss of control of your own data on someone else's service isn't a feature and should be something you should be expecting (create backups of your own data more often), yet as soon as everyone takes the 'free' upgrade bait on a third-party service, then 'all bets are off' including Github.

Seriously for organizations, you're better of in self-hosting your own projects on-premise with open-source alternatives like GitLab (recommended), cgit or even Gerrit to avoid nonsense like 'centralising everything to GitHub' in the long term. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems by TimTheTinker on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:15PM (#22960696)
Seriously, you should store wiki pages as .md files in a /wiki folder in your repo, regardless of your git repo hosting provider. I'm positive wiki pages are stored in a separate git repo alongside your code, anyway.

The more that lives in the codebase itself, the better -- ideally this would not only include wiki pages, but also issues, comments, PR threads, etc.

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems by tedivm on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:18PM (#22960743)
Github treats wikis as another git repository. I regularly use this to backup the wikis I have on github.

If your project is named `username/repository` then your wiki can be cloned at `git clone [email protected]:username/repository.wiki.git`.

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems by ribadeodev on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:52AM (#22965065)
This approach is something I never quite figured out. What is the point of documenting your project in another repository? Based on what OP just explained this is one of the only explanations I can come up with (GitHub treats this as an extra that you must pay for).
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems by modzu on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:23PM (#22960806)
i like this advice
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