Ask HN: Git Mirrors. Who's running one? What repos are you mirroring?

3 pointsgooob4mo ago3 comments

I started an effort a few months ago to mirror some essential git repos from github in case github ever goes down or microsoft decides to do some shenanigans.

What repos would you like to mirrored?

And do you know of any existing good mirrors out there that host good repos?

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pabs34mo ago

There are a couple of code archiving projects, SWH in particular has a large amount of GitHub repos:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Codearchiver https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Software_Heritage

eternityforest4mo ago

Everything has such a complex web of dependencies, how useful is mirroring a package without mirroring it's dependencies too?

Are there automated tools for mirroring the whole tree?

gooobOP4mo ago

good point. but yes i would say mirror the dependencies too.

of course there are.

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