https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=x0rumanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:49:04 +0000We lost about a day of git history across several repos on Bitbucket a while back-not an outage, a data issue on their side. Local clones saved most of it, but issues and PRs from that window were just gone. That’s roughly why I started building gitbacker as a side project. Turns out the ‘back up the repo’ part is easy; the metadata is where it gets interesting.

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