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by luckystartup 3430 days ago
I have at least 10 private repos on GitLab, and many public ones. Even so, this is no big deal to me. That's the beauty of git. Even if all of their backups fail, I can just do a push and everything is back up there.

I just hope my laptop doesn't die before they get it back online.

EDIT: Was fun to put this little command together. Run this from your code directory, and it will push all of your gitlab repos. I'm going to run it when GitLab is back online.

    find . -maxdepth 3 -type d -name '.git' -exec bash -c 'cd ${@%/.git} && git remote -v | grep -q gitlab.com && echo "Pushing $PWD..." && git push' -- {} \;
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wolfgang42 3430 days ago
From the incident report:

> Git repositories are NOT lost, we can recreate all of the projects whose user/group existed before the data loss, but we cannot restore any of these projects issues, etc.

Your fancy snippet will report that it has pushed no changes. The data that was lost was new issues, PRs, issue comments, and so on; I've never heard of anyone keeping backups of these on their local laptops.

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luckystartup 3430 days ago
> I've never heard of anyone keeping backups of these on their local laptops.

Hmm... That's an interesting idea!

You could do that on a separate (empty) branch. Maybe call it `__project`, and you could just have folders of markdown files. You could have two root folders for `issues/` and 'pull_requests/', and two subfolders in each for `./open/` and `./closed/`. And a simple command-line tool + web UI. You could just edit the file to add a comment.

It would be really nice to have a history and backup of all of your issues. I also like the fact that you could create or edit issues offline.

Then you could also set up a 2-way sync between your repo and GitLab / GitHub / Trello.

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zokier 3430 days ago
That sort of "inline" issue tracking is a thing. I think Bugs Everywhere[1] is one of the more mature systems based on the idea. There are several others too[2], most of them unmaintained. There are also wiki-style systems based on the same idea.

[1] http://www.bugseverywhere.org/ [2] http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/git-issue-trackers/

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tveita 3430 days ago
Time for a hosted Fossil service? :)

http://fossil-scm.org

(Actually, googling that it turns out one already exists...)

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