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By all means, -dot-com does not solve the problem GitHub has (centralization), and moving to a privately hosted GitLab re-introduces the problem GitHub mostly solved (separation).

is trying to solve this problem by defining a federation protocol for git services: github.com/git-federation/gitp

@jomo it does solve it in a way. You can always move easily to your private instance. Except if they suddenly turn evil and remove the export function.

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@qwazix @jomo git remote set-url origin $elsewhere

@jomo Issues and wiki don't migrate like that...