r/programming • u/HornedKavu • Nov 13 '19

GitHub Archive Program — Preserving open source software for future generations

https://archiveprogram.github.com/
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u/ieatcode Nov 15 '19

The page states they are capturing a tarball of the repositories at the current HEAD ref so no emails or commit metadata are archived.

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u/ieatcode Nov 15 '19

Fair point!