Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 days agoExcept 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.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Due to the nature of git, all developers already have a complete backup of the project and the entire history without a separate remote.