GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

https://twitter.com/jasonrohrer/status/1136092621149880320

by sharjeelsayed • 7 years ago

310 139 7 years ago

From being on the other side of this kind of "big company screws little guy for no reason"...

In ~80% of cases, there is more to the story than meets the eye. For example maybe a legal complaint came in, or someone was DoS attacking that repo and it put the whole GitHub service at risk.

nraynaud2• 7 years ago

and so you don't send an email?

londons_explore3• 7 years ago

Maybe they did, but the mail's stuck in a spam filter or sent to an old email address...

Maybe they tried to call him but he rejected the call?

Only the stories that sound unreasonable get viral attention.

lopmotr• 7 years ago

That's why online services will never really be a complete alternative to using your own hardware. They might not get their computers stolen or catch fire, but they destroy your data intentionally when they decide they don't like you. The failure modes are different but still present.

nraynaud2• 7 years ago

I think there is still an argument to be made that a it's worth it for a lot of companies (in particular in the beginning). Because your pokemon game or your scooter company going offline is not really really a big deal. And then you reach a size where more things are possible like an SLA, people you can call on the phone, and the possibility to shame the provider.

But it's true that each company probably need to think for themselves and their circumstances, and do at least a mental computation every six months: do I need offsite backup, a second cloud provider in cold standby, in hot standby, should I look at a colocation, should I look at square meters and ethernet crimping tools?

x3ro• 7 years ago

There's always two sides to a story. That being said, it seems like every other week now there's a story of a cloud service or provider shutting something down or removing something, without our with very little notice, and the only recourse for somebody who cannot afford an army of lawyers is calling them out on Twitter and hoping for the best.

This is an alarming trend, and highlights how decentralization and, at the same time, more accountability for this sort of action from these providers is necessary (through regulation?). Sadly it seems like at least the EU is currently walking in the opposite direction, which favors large corporations and the content industry :(

gloflo• 7 years ago

This is an alarming trend

This has always been the case, ever since BBS operators. Data on other people's machines is data on other people's machines.

trickstra• 7 years ago

so in 20% of the cases it really is a big company just screwing a little guy for no reason?

buzzerbetrayed• 7 years ago

Or there are more than 2 options I suppose

londons_explore3• 7 years ago

The remaining 20% are usually incompetence or malice on the part of the big company...

pimmen• 7 years ago

I a legal complaint came in I would have figured that you start a far more transparent, cohesive process where the one accused has some information of what's going on and feels some agency.

If there's a DoS, inform the party about it.

raverbashing• 7 years ago

It could be a BS/extortionate copyright strike, as it is becoming ever more common recently

PunchTornado• 7 years ago

there's no excuse to not email the guy.

Dayshine2• 7 years ago

The irony is that Jason is the "big company screws the little guy for no reason" with his own work.

He licensed his work at "Do whatever you want with it, absolutely no restrictions, and no permission necessary.".

Then when someone started making money off his work, he turned around and started litigation.

Animats• 7 years ago

Huh? It's a game. On Steam.[1] It's not a copy of anything; it's quite original. Has good reviews.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/595690/One_Hour_One_Life/

FullyFunctional• 7 years ago

That is terrible and a good reminder that using the "cloud" means that you don't really control your destiny. A quick googling around reveal a couple of options for backing up everything from github (but I'm not sure what you'd do with a backup if you got kicked out like the OP).

jarfil• 7 years ago

It's also a good reminder of why data portability is important. For the git part, you can just git push to another service, even a selfhosted one, and be up and running in no time, and GitHub does keep pages and wikis in git... but all the tickets, that's a problem, and why I don't trust GitHub to be a canonical source for development.

est31• 7 years ago

Gitlab has a feature to copy an entire Github repo including issues and issue threads, etc.

You can also enable options for it to act as a mirror or to make GitHub act as the mirror for Gitlab. I'm not sure whether there is a mode to keep the issue threads synced as well without manual intervention. That'd be full data portability.

raxxorrax• 7 years ago

That is generally a good thing about cloud applications that you are forced to bundle everything. Most of the software I run on AWS could easily be transported to Google, Microsoft or some other service.

Sure, there are exceptions and optimizations for specific services but overall it did increase portability of server applications quite a bit. Maybe the times were you just need that legacy windows 2000 server encapsulated with 7 firewalls and proxies are finally over.

I usually prefer to host my stuff on private servers, but people unreasonably want to put as much software as possible into cloud providers. I think the reason for that is more often cocaine abuse and wanting to be hip instead of technical/financial arguments, but it is what it is.

chaz• 7 years ago

I think the reminder is just that backups are necessary, and cloud isn't a required condition. I had a bare-metal host turn off my server because they were concerned I was violating the trademark of a big company with what I was serving. That big company was my client and I had permission, but the host shot first and asked questions later (actually, I had to call them when I saw the site went down).

gridlockd• 7 years ago

The only lesson to be learned here, one that needs to be repeated time and time again:

Don't put all your eggs into one basket.

bsder• 7 years ago

The lesson to be learned here is "Don't use GitHub."

Use something that you can run your own instance of (like GitLab) and make the cloud version a shadow copy of your local one. That way if they pull the rug out from under you, you actually have some way of dealing with the issue.

unixhero2• 7 years ago

Don't put all your projects in one cloud

And... Use Gitlab

majkinetor3• 7 years ago

Gitlab too had incidents, remember db backup fiasco ? I know few devs that lost issues and wikis that day.

Just backup your repos once a year, lets not be paranoid.

oakslab• 7 years ago

That's why I set up my github and gitlab to mirror each other. gitlab can even automatically get the latest changes from my github repo. too bad github can't do this yet [1].

[1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/415

ernsheong• 7 years ago

Put another way, do not treat Github/lab/Bitbucket as file hosting. As a repository it's fine, because it is assumed you have a local copy.

diminoten• 7 years ago

I don't understand, doesn't he have the repo locally?

Rebelgecko• 7 years ago

Might be annoying if he uses Github wikis, pull requests, issues, etc

Tetris1• 7 years ago

We need to hear 2 sides of a story. Github does not just 'delete' files. Author should contact them first and resolve any issues there is. And if github refuse that, than you can cry a river.

benj111• 7 years ago

Is it not incumbent upon Github to contact the author before deleting his account?

glenneroo2• 7 years ago

Maybe they did but it ended up in his spam filter or he unintentionally ignored it? As GP said, we need 2 sides to the story to make any judgements.

Chazprime• 7 years ago

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the author to be provided an explanation when the repo was taken down.

abetusk3• 7 years ago

Jason Rohrer [1] is the author of Passage [2].

His latest game, "One Hour One Life" [3], is a massively multiplayer online game where your character has only one hour of life. You start off as a baby and are dependent on others for shelter and heat before you're able to be autonomous. Eventually you die of old age but your impact on the world/server persists.

I recommend anyone interested to purchase the game [4] or at least look at video stream of gameplay [5].

When I purchased the game, the source code came with it and as far as I could tell was dedicated to the public domain. This was client code so I'm not sure if the server code is released anywhere (maybe this was what was taken down at GitHub).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rohrer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_(video_game)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_One_Life

[4] http://onehouronelife.com/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu7kXKuShks&list=PLcA1QDRup-...

aasasd3• 7 years ago

He's also idiosyncratic in the approach to the rest of his life. When he practiced ‘simple living,’ in his front yard he had (or still has?) a small wild garden with uncut grass, where he of course walked barefoot and his children played naked (iirc). He was taken to the court by neighbors on the issue of grass, and appeared there with a tome of paper citing local laws and research that says cut grass exudes harmful substances. Whereupon he was left to do as he pleases.

The article on Rohrer, which included this anecdote, theorized that his court appearance proved his gardening choices to be a matter of principle and not just negligence, thus changing the perception of him by the neighbors.

Meanwhile, his ‘Passage’ is in MOMA's initial videogame collection, and he's had a solo exhibition at The Davis Museum.

enriquto3• 7 years ago

It would seem that he has some idiosyncratic neighbors, then. But they are not alone, a certain amount of people are strangely obsessed by the grass of their neighbors. My kids loved the dandelions of my grass and I let them grow, but then I received regular bullying by the old lady next to our place, who had a "perfect" french style garden, and looked at us as if we were some kind of savages. I actually found this bevavior rather funny.

jimkri• 7 years ago

Michael Pollan actually talks about this in his book Second Nature. His father never cut his lawn and the neighbors had the same reaction, but his dad fought back as well. Really cool book if you want to read about gardening and how society looks at nature especially the lawn and garden.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nature-Gardeners-Michael-Polla...

derefr• 7 years ago

cut grass exudes harmful substances

Intriguing “fact” if true; I can’t reconcile this with so many animals eating grass. They’re both directly cutting it in their mouths, and also inhaling the volatiles from the part they leave connected to the plant.

Is there some problem common to all grazers? Something like the way koalas are proposed to be as languorous as they are because the eucalyptus leaves they eat are acting in a drug-like manner on them?

Or, alternately, is there some adaptation all grazers have in their bodily response to chemical volatiles released by the cutting of grasses, that other animals species don’t have?

babuskov• 7 years ago

as far as I could tell was dedicated to the public domain

I recommend everyone to read this regarding that matter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/ay0w64/one_hour_on...

I don't think Jason really understood what public domain means when he released the game into public domain. Once people started using his work as PD work, he started to complain, file DMCA requests, etc.

abetusk3• 7 years ago

Very interesting, thanks!

Just to be clear, it looks like Jason Rohrer is still very much committed to putting his work in the public domain and, as far as I can tell, has been consistent in his commitment to keeping the work he's dedicated to the public domain in the public domain.

What looks to be happening is more of a trademark issue. I think Jason Rohrer might be backpeddling on that. It looks like he clearly indicated to people making a port that the "One Hour One Life" name was also in the public domain and could be used but that they shouldn't, essentially making an ethical argument. When the iOS port that was similarly named ("One Hour One Life for iOS") and became more popular than his released game, that's when he started to push back. [1]

It looks like a big point of contention for Jason Rohrer is brand confusion as many people don't realize the iOS port of "One Hour One Life" has nothing to do with Jason Rohrer. I sympathize with him but I wish he had taken a bigger stance on his trademark.

Free/libre/open source organizations have understood this and use trademark to brand themselves and make sure others don't dilute that brand without permission. This is how the Open Source Hardware Association essentially does their certification and why you can't use "Free Software Foundation" in your open source project's name without permission.

[1] https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5479

aasasd3• 7 years ago

On the contrary, from the quote it seems he has crystal clear understanding of copyright and public domain—not too surprisingly since his adherence to these principles dates at least fifteen years back (http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribut...)

He's appealing to ethics, not the law. He says right there that his objection is to the naming of forks. If that looks to you like violation of the public domain promise, you must think the name constitutes the body of the work.

I'm not sure what to make of the DMCA filings, though, since those should obviously rely on copyright in the first place.

From his twitter, it seems he's also convinced by now that the trademark law provides perfect solution for this problem, and has apparently filed an application for a trademark on the OHOL name.

dlahoda• 7 years ago

there is fork https://gitlab.com/_zed_/OneLife (with keyboard as it says)

nbrempel• 7 years ago

Seems it’s been a busy week for these reminders not to trust centralized services.

I think the the “Fediverse” will become more popular over the next few years.

rambojazz2• 7 years ago

There are in fact people who are already trying to "federate" code collaboration https://nth.io/notice/7652

0815test• 7 years ago

That's interesting. IIRC Linus Torvalds even came up with a tool to make "distributed/federated" code collaboration quite easy, avoiding any reliance on a single centralized host. Maybe we should start making use of it.

brendyn• 7 years ago

https://www.softwareheritage.org/

"We collect and preserve software in source code form, because software embodies our technical and scientific knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it.

Software is a precious part of our cultural heritage. We curate and make accessible all the software we collect, because only by sharing it we can guarantee its preservation in the very long term. "

emilfihlman• 7 years ago

What's the reason? What the heck is Github doing.

zimpenfish• 7 years ago

FWIW, https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife appears to be there at the moment (20190605T0812+0100) (along with 22 other repositories.)

dinglejungle• 7 years ago

Yeah, seems to be back up. That link (along with https://github.com/jasonrohrer) was 404ing when this was submitted.

notaboutdave• 7 years ago

Setting up your own git remote takes minutes. Github is just a pretty interface with bells and whistles. I think more people should go self hosted. It's cheaper, and none of the features are truly needed.

ageitgey• 7 years ago

Github is just a pretty interface with bells and whistles. I think more people should go self hosted. It's cheaper, and none of the features are truly needed.

Maybe none of the Github features are useful to you in how you use it, but I find Github the most productive way to work with a distributed dev team that I've ever found by a large margin. It's an amazing system for productivity of large dev teams and a dream to work with if it fits your use case.

The biggest feature for me is the whole Pull Request flow with integration between filing the original issue, the code changes to fix it with inline code reviews and tracking everything through to a release all with a few clicks. And all of it is in a format you can link to in an email or drop into a chat, even referencing the specific lines of the diff you care about. It's really an amazing system that most of us take for granted.

Different people have different needs. And for a lot of people, git itself is just the (excellent) engine but really they want a whole car.

ZuLuuuuuu• 7 years ago

It might not be cheaper depending on your needs. You won't get all the features GitHub provides with just a git server. You can install something like GitLab, Gogs or Gitea but then you need to do the maintenance yourself which is not minutes.

Add to that the user permission system which Bitbucket like services provide out of the box (I don't know about GitHub), for example a certain team in your company can access certain repositories, interns can access other repositories etc.

Add to that when you want one of your customers to have a read-only access to a repository, so you not only have to manage user permissions, but your whole IT structure needs to provide outside access to a certain part of your network, in a secure way.

This is achievable but it certainly wouldn't take just minutes. Services like Github and Bitbucket provide all these features for a reasonable price, and they have dedicated sysadmins working on providing a secure service 24/7, who would do a better job than a lot of companies can do with their 1-2 person team doing sysadmin things in their free time, besides their main daily workload.

mkingston• 7 years ago

I acknowledge that this is a classic HN comment, but a git repo on a VPS with Unix file permissions meets all of your criteria with very low effort.

bovine3dom• 7 years ago

none of the features are truly needed

I think ease of contribution and discovery shouldn't be underestimated. I find it hard to believe that our little project [1] would have had 90+ contributors, of whom ~8 made very substantial contributions, if we'd self-hosted it. The project would have been far lesser without those contributions, and I probably would have abandoned it out of lack of interest.

That said, most other projects I see around have much more uneven contribution levels, with typically 100:1 ratios from the core developer to the second biggest contributor. Maybe we're just weird.

[1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/graphs/contributors

dotancohen• 7 years ago

I've nothing to add to the conversation, but I would like the opportunity to thank you for Tridactyl. It makes the web usable.

kkarakk• 7 years ago

well shepherding a project is truly important if you want contributors - you have to tag issues that are good for noobs, help people with pull requests, not blow off issues that are requests for more documentation of how a module works etc etc. a lot of which i can see you're doing by looking at your issues tab.

Another sad fact of life nowadays is that github issues reduce friction but a lot of "hardcore" developers prefer email or some other offsite system that has lots of friction to people getting involved(i see this a lot in gitlab/bitbucket/sourcehut hosted projects). which means an open source noob is going to look at another project instead of getting involved with yours(again not an issue with you). for better or worse github is king here.

most open source projects don't bother and tend to rely on interest levels to keep them afloat. this works for the popular ones but tends to sink niche projects

drexlspivey• 7 years ago

Self-hosted is cheaper than free?

imtringued• 7 years ago

The electricity company/ISP can still deny service.

JohnFen3• 7 years ago

That's not only far less likely, but far easier to fix -- if my ISP and/or utility company shut me down, it would be relatively easy to physically move my servers to a friends house until I can get the situation taken care of.

billpg• 7 years ago

I feel like I need more information.

cdubzzz• 7 years ago

Twitter in a nutshell.

iaeqi• 7 years ago

Saying "they removed my life's work" when you has a local copy of it is, at best, intellectually dishonest.

parksy• 7 years ago

Not really, that's what physically happened.

Local copy may have been deleted. Developer may have just got a new laptop and traded the old one. Argue at length over having multiple redundant backups perhaps, but the simple truth is his work was deleted, and it's only by luck (or foresight) he has a local copy.

That it even happened is a huge problem, whataboutism aside. My trust in the longevity and stability of the service offered by GitHub is significantly eroded by this news.

rurban• 7 years ago

Must have been a mistake. It's there again: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife

I also found this comment on his site:

Tarr (1,819.0 hours on record) Posted 42 hours ago

"Can't recommend the game to anyone who either doesn't have 15+ years of game development or doesn't know Jason personally. Game dynamics are too rich for a filthy casual like myself. If you want to make a suggestion please learn to read spaghetti code and hope the copypasta is as delicious as it is hard to untangle."

Which is interesting, because Jason's C++ code is one of the very best I've ever read. I normally hate C++, but his code is beautiful and very readable. Like out of a book or tutorial. E.g. https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/blob/master/gameSourc...

Also his dischord game support channel is filled with hate about him. Not only by this guy, but by many seemingly childish individuals. Looks like another gamer gate to me.

V-22• 7 years ago

I'm admittedly not proficient in C++, but I can't see what's beatiful about the code. Looking at the specific example you linked to... inconsistent formatting and "magic values" aside, what's the point of, say:

        if( !relaunched ) {
            printf( "Relaunch failed\n" );
            setSignal( "relaunchFailed" );
            }
        else {
            printf( "Relaunched... but did not exit?\n" );
            setSignal( "relaunchFailed" );
            }

Instead of simply:

        if( !relaunched ) {
            printf( "Relaunch failed\n" );
            }
        else {
            printf( "Relaunched... but did not exit?\n" );
            }
        setSignal( "relaunchFailed" );

Such copy-pasta style redundancy does count as somewhat sloppy in my book.

And do C++ books or tutorials recommend cramming over 20 KLOC in a single file? https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/blob/master/gameSourc...

I don't have any bone to pick with the guy, whom I don't know and who I'm sure may be very talented.

I only fail to see why code quality, beauty even, would be considered a forte of this particular project.

kabwj• 7 years ago

It’s probably a mistake done after refactoring. The guy is only human you know.

daemin• 7 years ago

This is not so much C++ as it's C with some C++ syntax. From the look of the bits of code I've seen is that it's written pretty much on demand. Not building an engine or library, just only the code that is needed and nothing more.

userbinator• 7 years ago

I'd say it's pretty mundane code, like perhaps 90% of what I usually see.

If I were trying to reduce redundancy, it would become more like this:

    printf("Relaunch%s", relaunched? "ed... but did not exit?\n" : " failed\n" );
    setSignal("relaunchFailed");

narrowtux• 7 years ago

According to an earlier tweet [1], the reports are from users who are mad they were banned from his discord server.

Actually, it seems like this "report" to discord came on the heels of us banning a member for posting offensive content. That member then, to seek revenge, reported the entire server to Discord, and told us about it. Nice.

I've experienced similar immature behaviour in the Minecraft community back when it was at its popularity peak.

[1] https://twitter.com/jasonrohrer/status/1119751548542652416

AgentME• 7 years ago

I've helped run a forum in the past, and holy shit is it scarily easy to make stupidly-determined enemies. Even people who joined just to spam offensive content would act like they were the one victimized when banned and would do all sorts of things to "even the score". I think these people would emotionally forget that they joined looking for a fight and earned their ban in the first place, and would then ride the high of righteous indignation.

whatever_dude• 7 years ago

Online forums for random topics used to be the last refuge of the mentally unstable. I've moderated several forums and saw this behavior first hand; a banned user would spend so much time and effort trying to stir the pot and get back at the forum's owners for their Injustice. I often wondered why would they choose to waste so much time in a niche forum rather than go do something productive.

Naturally, nowadays they have online forums that _cater_ to this kinds of individual (4chan, some subreddits, etc). Nature, um.. finds a way.

arkades3• 7 years ago

This is not unique to forums. Anyone that’s owned a retail or retail-analog business (eg, medicine) has to deal with precisely this sort of crazy-ass behavior on a reasonably frequent basis.

A tiny sliver of the population is effing nuts.

_bxg13• 7 years ago

And how was there no system in place to prevent one disgruntled person from taking down someone else's entire project on a whim, without evidence?

kevin_b_er2• 7 years ago

And if they'd just found a few buddies to also spam Reports would that have made it any better?

kevin_b_er2• 7 years ago

Mass Reporting to trigger automated systems has become a great way to silence your enemies. Note how discord did not explain jack squat about where this content was. Just an ultimatum to remove abstractly bad content with a deadline. All from mass reporting.

k_• 7 years ago

Nat Friedman just replied to this tweet:

Sincere apologies Jason. We will investigate what happened here and learn from it.

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1136216389054881792

denkmoon• 7 years ago

<Big corporation> removes <large body of work> without notice or consultation.

How often do we have these articles? Averaging once a month? Maybe more?

How often does it need to happen before people realise that your $10/mo means jack shit to a multi-million dollar company, and "accidents" like this are just a cost of business to them. Solving the problem properly would cost a lot more than just letting people fall through the cracks of automation.

SteveSmith16384• 7 years ago

So what should we do? What price do we need to pay to exceed the "jack shit" threshold? Specific recommendations please.

dooglius• 7 years ago

Do your own backups on physical drives you own of anything truly irreplaceable

apple4ever• 7 years ago

Self host in multiple locations - either datacenters or cloud providers. Its the only way to be sure.

manicdee• 7 years ago

Use GitHub and similar hosting only as a public gathering place for projects, not as the sole development repository. Which is to say, develop locally and ensure you have backups, only using GitHub to share the work with others.

This is the way development using git is supposed to work anyway.

a3n• 7 years ago

We are all Ford Pintos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys...

xvector• 7 years ago

What an interesting story, especially when you delve into the links on tort reform

arnaudsm• 7 years ago

Boycott is often the only solution. That's why those articles are important.

lapinot• 7 years ago

Boycott is not a solution. It's the first and very tiny step towards doing something. People need to federate, mutualise, fight as part of communities. Personal actions have as only upside making you feel good (which is still a big win, but it's pretty superficial and doesn't scale).

rusk• 7 years ago

well the beauty of git is that the entire repository is more than likely cloned in a few different places and is easily reproduced. Also makes it nice and easy to move elsewhere.

RickJWagner• 7 years ago

I suppose it's good to review all your big assumptions once in a while.

OP assumed GitHub would hold his code (and make it available) forever, seemingly a good assumption. Now he's massively inconvenienced.

Time for me to look around, consider all my big assumptions....

millisecond• 7 years ago

The frustrating thing to me is that this guy will get this solved and we’ll all move on. He’s reasonably well known and had enough Twitter juice to get attention. All the small people who end up in this situation, whatever it truly is, without those resources will remain screwed.

uponcoffee• 7 years ago

I get what you're saying, and agree to a degree.

On the other hand this is like not backing up your hard drive. Having a single point of failure and expecting anything less is...

Like you said, he's big enough to shout into the abyss and get a response, while others have to accept that a single point of failure is exactly that.

If we changed the headline to hacker deletes '5 years worth of work', the response would be different; two-factor should have been enabled, should have used a strong password, one password per account, yubi-key, etc. The onus would have been on the developer.

There are plenty of free hosting services for repos, so there's no reason IMO to not maintain a mirror.

bspammer• 7 years ago

Looks like you are right, he's already back up and running: https://twitter.com/jasonrohrer/status/1136304496882044928

tdy_err• 7 years ago

GitHub (CEO) claims customer support looked into this prior to any tweets FWIW

JustSomeNobody• 7 years ago

I'm sure he'll get it resolved.

But come on people, "in the cloud" doesn't mean it is safe. If you care at all about what you're storing in the cloud, make copies to store locally and offsite.

_bxg13• 7 years ago

How does this keep happening, across all these different services? The very least you could do is give the account a few days' warning via email, which is totally automatable. There's no excuse for not doing that.

magashna• 7 years ago

5 years of work

doesn't have a backup

can't be that important

mitchtbaum• 7 years ago

I just backed up ~100 repos & ~500 issues, totaling ~100 MB of json and git tracked code.

Everything's right there waiting for you.

https://github.com/josegonzalez/python-github-backup

srndh• 7 years ago

What solution exist for me to keep a complete copy of my github account offline or keep an uptodate backup? Mainly all the repos, I started and just forked.

JohnFen3• 7 years ago

Surely they weren't keeping everything only on GitHub, and had locally stored copies, right? Right?

GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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