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I am a web archivist with an archival project on Svalbard that predates this GitHub initiative. Additionally, large-scale github-specific projects like https:/
by jcahill 6y ago
I am a web archivist with an archival project on Svalbard that predates this GitHub initiative.
Additionally, large-scale github-specific projects like https://gharchive.org https://gharchive.org (formerly GitHub Archive) have existed for some time.
In my experience, code is more likely than not to be preserved in a stale revision, if at all.
The most common forms of preservation are (a) simple tarballing and (b) git bundles.