From: Junio C Hamano <hidden> Date: 2025-07-08 21:31:18
Sahil Gautam [off-list ref] writes:
thought what if git supports it inherently, so i write this mail :)
As far as I know, no.
Your worry about these hosting providers taking the non-commit
project metainformation, like reviews and issues, hostage to prevent
their users from defecting may be real. It would be very nice if
these hosting providers can agree to make project metainformations
interchangeable in an open way. It would allow not just migration
between hosing providers, but may even allow federated operation to
be implemented. You push your work to one site, somebody on another
site comment on your commits elsewhere, etc.
It would be very nice if these hosting providers can agree to make
project metainformations interchangeable in an open way.
it's not just about migrations, it's about a repository being self
reliant in itself. think of some git
hosting provider blocking my account because of some ai algorithm, think
of some disaster striking
some data center or some malware deleting all the data on the servers,
all these are quite possible.
having git store that data means that you clone the whole thing and
doesn't matter what happens
to the hosting provider, if you have the repository, you have the whole
thing.
From: Eli Schwartz <hidden> Date: 2025-07-09 00:42:10
On 7/8/25 8:21 PM, Sahil Gautam wrote:
On 7/9/25 3:01 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
It would be very nice if these hosting providers can agree to make
project metainformations interchangeable in an open way.
it's not just about migrations, it's about a repository being self
reliant in itself. think of some git
hosting provider blocking my account because of some ai algorithm, think
of some disaster striking
some data center or some malware deleting all the data on the servers,
all these are quite possible.
having git store that data means that you clone the whole thing and
doesn't matter what happens
to the hosting provider, if you have the repository, you have the whole
thing.
It would be very nice if these hosting providers can agree to make
project metainformations interchangeable in an open way.
it's not just about migrations, it's about a repository being self
reliant in itself. think of some git
hosting provider blocking my account because of some ai algorithm, think
of some disaster striking
some data center or some malware deleting all the data on the servers,
all these are quite possible.
having git store that data means that you clone the whole thing and
doesn't matter what happens
to the hosting provider, if you have the repository, you have the whole
thing.
thanks Eli,
i will look into git-bug try it out and see if it
does the job. i think like docker-compose, any other feature requests such
as this one have to first prove their worth in the wild, and since your
suggestion
gave me a hint that they can exist separately, i will take that route.