love mercurial
Eh, some days I do, some days I don’t.
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Thanks. As you can see this is not an area I have kept up with.
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Just as an FYI follow-up to the GitLab suggestion, if you’ve got personal projects in GitHub (or really, anything that doesn’t rely on team buy-in) that you want to extract, GitLab has a built-in tool on their website for importing GitHub projects, complete with commit history and everything.
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And git itself has built-in commands to do this 
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Add remote?
A co-worker of mine wanted to truncate our repos because we were migrating to a different server. I just told him not today.
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Well, once you import your stuff to GutLab you do still need to do the whole git set-remote origin song and dance on your device, but the GitLab website makes it super easy to import all of your history and such. Even most of your project accoutrements (not sure if it does issues, since none of my personal things have any open).
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Just set remote-origin then push
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But since you would have to have set up the project on GitLab to begin with, why not just use the importer that they provide which, as I just said, also imports other components of your GitHub project as well?
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I’m going to be moving my projects to sourcehut: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-01-13-regarding-ethics/
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Most of that importer is just making a bare repository, then pushing with the ‘–mirror’ option, or ‘git archive’ then unzipping it…
Not that having it done automatically isn’t nice
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interesting link there about gitlab. not as evil as what just happened at github, but still…
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Since this topic is still open, here’s an update:
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Hey Friedman, I can save you some time. Some antisemitic fuck or fucks shitcaned a Jewish employee for warning people about Nazis during a fascist riot of domestic terrorists.
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I’m glad GitHub reversed under public pressure and desire to protect their wallet. But this first sentence of that blog post…
“On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee.” ~ Erica Brescia
How does someone write such blatant Newspeak bullshit dodging their company’s responsibility for firing someone and sleep at night? Are they so deluded that they actually think most people won’t notice that they’re being deliberately vague when everyone already knows what they did? Or have they just been spinning mealy-mouthed euphemisms for so long that dissembling is second-nature to them?
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I’d assume the latter - after being filtered through a wall of lawyers.
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GitHub regrets to inform that it had to “seperate” from Miep Gies for her divisive decision to hide Anne Frank and her family in an annex. /s
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the only reason i can think they used that language when the rest of the apology was so clear is that they offered a severance package in exchange for the employee “voluntarily” leaving.
the other side of that carrot is the “take it or your fired” stick – so it’s still from the employee’s perspective getting canned, just not from a legal perspective. ( and it usually means the person signs a contract “i promise not to sue you”. 
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