Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub

Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by duskwuff on Saturday June 27, 2015 @01:30PM (#9790848)

Github may be a commercial provider, but at least it's a commercial provider based on an open protocol. If things do start going wrong at Github, escape is a "git clone" and a "git push" away.

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by prezjordan on Saturday June 27, 2015 @05:56PM (#9791654)

Except issues :(

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by electic on Saturday June 27, 2015 @02:04PM (#9790974)

SVN isn't?

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by duskwuff on Saturday June 27, 2015 @02:07PM (#9790990)

A lot of the content on Sourceforge isn't in SVN. I think some of it may still be using CVS, and a lot more is just in the "project files" catch-all.

Also, SVN is a lot more annoying to copy, especially if you want the whole history. Not that it isn't doable, but it's pretty slow and obnoxious. With Git, every clone includes everything by default.

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by Sir_Substance on Saturday June 27, 2015 @02:14PM (#9791011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...

https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-stora...

Githubs strategy is clear.

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by hrehhf on Saturday June 27, 2015 @03:11PM (#9791214)

> "Git LFS ... is open sourced under the MIT license."

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