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bitserf on Jan 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub major issues - repos have "lost" commits an...

There is the Github API, so you could backup the non-repository data as well by writing a couple of scripts, if you were so inclined.

jamesbritt on Jan 31, 2011 [–]

Right, and I should probably set up something to auto-snag that stuff where it counts, but having to do that is the sort of thing you have to so for any non-git-based site.

It'd be nice of all those related items were also in a repo, easy to pull.

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