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can someone make a quick intro to what happends for microsoft to block organicmaps account ?
Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.
Shit. I live in Denmark. How do you download a whole github repository, commits, issues and all?
you can set up a repo mirror with forgejo
You can make git clone and get all the code and commits. Issues are a GitHub feature and they cannot be downloaded by a simple git command
You can import it on an alternative like gitlab. The process of moving something from github to gitlab is just as smooth as if everything was contained in the repo itself.
Personally, recommend forgejo, gitlab has a lot of features I didn't need and I found the upgrade process if you didn't keep on top of it annoying. Forgejo actions are pretty similar to github ones and setting up runners is super straightforward.
Good question. Commits are easy - they are part of git core functionalities so are included in every copy of the repository (for example developers' local copies) but github specific contents like comments, issues, PRs..?
This should also be part of git repo (but maybe not downloaded through typical git clone as it might be too large though). Has developers of git ever considered doing this?
The original developer of Git is Linus Torvalds and he wrote it for the use of developing Linux. He handed off the project to Junio Hamano after a short while who still leads it. They use a process where you submit patches by mail, for Linux and for Git itself too.
To make this easier they have the commands
git format-patch,git send-emailandgit applymboxlater changed togit amto apply them. They also addedgit request-pullto generate a short plaintext email like message to request a pull.The Pull Request as a bigger concept of data and discussion that should be kept around came from GitHub and was put over top of Git. The concept has been rebuilt by various competitors separately. But it doesn't match the Linux and Git development model so they never used GitHub Pull Request, even though there is a GitHub mirror of Linux and a GitHub mirror of Git. For them the discussions happens in the mailing list.
So it's very unlikely they would start including the stuff that was added by others over top, that they don't need.
No, it they didn't change anything add new git remote to the new address