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by asuidyasiud 4289 days ago
You can get a DOI for github.
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Then what? There's nothing magical about DOIs. You need someone to store the citation metadata. And generate / deposit citation metadata. And maintain the persistence of the DOI. What precisely does the DOI represent? A codebase? A fork of it? A file? A file at a particular revision? A changeset?