alt Hacker NewsCan we please demand that Github provide mirror APIs to competitors? We're just asking for an extinction-level event. "Oops, our AI deleted the world's open source."
Any public source code hosting service should be able to subscribe to public repo changes. It belongs to the authors, not to Microsoft.
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small_model • yesterday at 4:55 PM
Every repo usually has at least one local copy somewhere, worst would be few old repos disappear.
_flux • yesterday at 4:34 PM
Making it even easier to snipe accidentally committed credentials?
kgwxd • yesterday at 4:34 PM
No, we can't. Hence Git. Use it the right way, or prepare for the fallout. Anyone looking for a good way to prepare for that, I suggest Git.
The history of tickets and PRs would be a major loss - but a beauty of git is that if at least one dev has the repo checked out then you can easily rehost the code history.