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by rednut 2050 days ago
So what if Github itself is not OSS? The technology behind is already open source and decentralized. You can switch to a Gitlab instance with just a few mouse clicks while also migrating your issues and pull requests.
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thekyle 2049 days ago
I don't believe issues or pull requests are part of the Git repo. If there is a way to migrate them it would involve some GitHub API which could be shut down.
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Arnavion 2049 days ago
The commits in pull requests are part of the git repo, in that they can be fetched from the repo's remote. The comments are not.
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samoa42 2049 days ago
as said; the issues are not part of the repo.

as much as many projects could use a clean slate here, i dont think the burden of migranting them manually or the act of just dumping them is realistic.

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CharlesW 2049 days ago
> So what if Github itself is not OSS? The technology behind is already open source…

So is much of the technology behind Discourse.[1]

[1] https://discord.com/open-source (click on "OS Libraries")

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