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The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 6, 2012 20:55 UTC (Fri) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld) by apoelstra
Parent article: The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

> Any data you can put into it, you can get out of it, and the point of git is that you can't ever delete anything, so I don't see the problem

Note that you'd have to regularly run something like https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup to make sure you have a copy of all of your data. And there are a few minor limitations, for example: "the GitHub API does not seem to provide a way to access notes added to commits and notes added to lines of code"


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