Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 days ago
For anyone that needs to know: it’s criminally easy to set up git for multiple remotes, making a migration from GitHub a lot easier.
Remember that origin is just the default, and you can have any number configured you want.
git remote -vgit remote add $name $urlgit push $remotename $branchname git pull $remotename/$branchname (note the slash)git fetch --allThe first two are just one-time setup, and the rest just get bolted onto your existing workflow. At some point, you’ll want to use git remote move names around, possibly even making origin something other than GitHub. Cheers.
Except the difficulty in migrating from GitHub is not moving the source code, that’s the trivial part.
It’s moving the discussions, issues, releases, free CI on GitHub Actions, free hosting on GitHub Pages, stars, visibility, existing community around the project on GitHub, losing contributors. These are the problems, not configuring git for another remote.
True, but the article is about projects getting de-platformed, so all that goes away under those circumstances. There’s value tied up in all that data, but the codebase itself might be far harder to replace securely if the public repo just vanishes. Better to have at least an alternate offsite backup - on another service even - if all you do is maintain a project-owner-controlled clone.
Plus, I know it’s a small gesture, but some folks might need that tiny push to migrate if they’re already fence-sitting about leaving.
Due to the nature of git, all developers already have a complete backup of the project and the entire history without a separate remote.
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If only the forge parts were part of the spec like I believe in fossil for example. They are pretty much standardized already. All of the forges have issues, prs, releases. If there exists a git extension for this already, we really ought to spread that via word of mouth because at least I’m not aware of one. If not, I hope someone more familiar with the git spec could work one out and write helpful contribution guides to go with it. I, same as a lot of others I would believe, would be very much interested in helping build one.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
Rare Fossil win