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		mschuster91 on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub was down I wonder why you can't export them as a read-only git repository. (Read-only to avoid people messing around with the history)

daxelrod on Aug 1, 2017 | [–]

You can actually export them, but the format is undocumented, and is meant only for import into GitHub Enterprise:

https://developer.github.com/v3/migration/migrations/

csense on July 31, 2017 | [–]

Because that would make it easier to migrate away from Github, which Github doesn't want you to do.

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