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Comment by mattezell | Hacker News Reader

Thanks for the link. Cloning appears to currently not be a problem.. Of course, for true fans just wanting a copy, hosting the cloned repo as a static site in Apache or IIS is super easy and a fully playable setup can be accomplished in just a few minutes...

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Is there an easy way to rehost Github repos outside of Github?

Bitbucket?

Same problem... They'll just serve bitbucket with a takedown. I was hoping there's a way for people to easily rehost repos on their own servers.

Bitbucket has free private repos.

    $ git bundle create one-file.git --all

That creates a single file containing all branches in the repository. It's a plain file so you can copy that around with any protocol you like. Open it with

    $ git clone one-file.git new-repo

If you want to collaborate on further development and don't mind running something on the server, gitolite [1] is stable and powerful. Note that if your repo becomes popular, _you_ might be served with the takedown notice.

[1] http://gitolite.com/

Of course, it's just a git repo. Clone it anywhere.

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