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Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Looking for your personal lists of Github repositories, which might be deleted from Github at some point, for whatever reason. For example, the maintainer might delete his account from Github or archive all his repositories.

A famous example of an open source project, which had trouble to continue thriving, is youtube-dl.

Which projects' repositories do you think are worth backing up?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Wonder if there’s a docker to backup and update repos

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Forgejo has an option to mirror a repository and update on a regular interval. It won't get wikis or issues though. I've got mine set up to mirror a bunch of decomps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you do that without needing a pak for that repo?

Unless I am doing something Wong which is always likely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It won’t get wikis or issues though.

You can easily mirror Github wikis as well. You just need to add .wiki.git to the repo URL. That way you can clone the wiki just like any other Git repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Running Gitea and want to mirror worthwhile repositories, hence this post. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yep and you can dictate the sync time. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks! This is great to know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It's point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box "this is a mirror".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] Why did you report my comment???

Reason: Honest question: why docker if a simple git command is enough?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t recall reporting any comment today. Can I fix that if I reported it somehow?

Edit: shit, I see I used report instead of reply. Im sorry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I figured it seems like a response not a report! Thanks for clarifying :)

I agree with cli command over docker. Sometimes docker is easier for the less informed though, me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You triggered the independent thought alarm