[cburgmer]

"github-backup [...] backs up everything GitHub publishes about the repository, including branches, tags, other forks, issues, comments, wikis, milestones, pull requests, watchers, and stars."

https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup

[ludamad]

Cool. Along with those looking to migrate, it's good for the good ol' paranoid people.

[david-given]

Can you put the data back again, though? Last I saw it wasn't possible to use the API to, e.g., add issues owned by someone else. (I was wanting to migrate mailing list archives off SourceForge.)

[fapjacks]

Perfect! I have been searching fruitlessly for exactly this since GitHub changed and went insane.