GitHub Is Down - Hackdot

Re:GitHub Is Down by bartread on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:45AM (#46947459)

Yeah, I'm literally looking at GitLab's "Migrate from GitHub" page on their docs site right now. If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.

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Re:GitHub Is Down by Zambyte on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:15PM (#46947871)

Maybe it's be reasonable to script using the glab and gh clis? I've never tried anything like that, but I regularly use the glab cli and it's pretty comprehensive.

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Re:GitHub Is Down by notpushkin on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:25PM (#46948873)

No need – it imports pretty much anything you can reliably import from GitHub, including issues and PRs (with comments): https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/import/github/#imported...

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Re:GitHub Is Down by gslepak on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:15PM (#46949573)

> If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.

That is what that feature does. It imports issues and code and more (not sure about "projects", don't use that feature on Github).

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Re:GitHub Is Down by stevekemp on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:02PM (#46950316)

If you're considering moving away from github due to problems with reliability/outages, then any migration to gitlab will not make you happy.

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Re:GitHub Is Down by bartread on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:40AM (#46957375)

Thanks for the heads up.

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Re:GitHub Is Down by nextaccountic on Monday February 09, 2026 @09:45PM (#46954707)

I wish more people used git-bug. It stores issues and PRs in git (not as branches or tags but as special refs that don't pollute the output when you list branches), and have bridges from/to github and other sites

It's like the fossil model, but on Git

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

If everyone used it, it would eliminate this specific form of lock in

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