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GitHub repos in your filesystem

Shown by ImJasonH on Sep 17, 2015. Click the card to turn it over.

24points

9comments

#1,087of 2,565 in 2015

Top 43%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

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0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.

Performance: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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GitHub API rate limits would break it under load
From 2 comments
- > The GitHub API is rate-limited, and this makes a lot of API calls. Don't be surprised if things start to fall apart under load. Under normal usage (read: not running scripts on…
  omnidan on HN
- Cool! "The GitHub API is rate-limited, and this makes a lot of API calls. Don't be surprised if things start to fall apart under load." => consider self hosting with our GitLab
  sytse on HN
Git clone already does this
From 1 comment
- Isn't this kind of what git-clone is for?
  gobbert on HN
Does not handle repos or folders with dots in names
From 1 comment
- Seems it does not handle repos or folders with "."
  gcao on HN

Does normal usage hit GitHub API limits, and is caching used?
From 1 comment
- > The GitHub API is rate-limited, and this makes a lot of API calls. Don't be surprised if things start to fall apart under load. Under normal usage (read: not running scripts on…
  omnidan on HN

git clone
From 1 comment
- Isn't this kind of what git-clone is for?
  gobbert on HN
Time Machine
From 1 comment
- So pretty much Time Machine?
  scorpwarp23 on HN