This move makes sense IMO. There are a lot of Hello world public repos out there which is actually crowding search results and inflating number of "open source projects" in Github.
The problem I think GitHub has is that is has too many proprietary extensions onto the Git format that don’t have an equivalent in the Git format: issue tracking and versions, off the top of my head.
I don’t to say blame GH for having an incentive, as it’s hard to say I have my eggs in GitHub’s basket: if I needed to move to another provider my code is already in my projects folder, and I can manually move any open issues over. Still, it’d be a wonderful gesture from Microsoft to the OSS world of they made such features an open-source extension to Git.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 78.9 ms ] threadAlso note that these private repositories are limited to 3 collaborators.
This is an amazing move but reason #2 is too important for me ideologically.
I don’t to say blame GH for having an incentive, as it’s hard to say I have my eggs in GitHub’s basket: if I needed to move to another provider my code is already in my projects folder, and I can manually move any open issues over. Still, it’d be a wonderful gesture from Microsoft to the OSS world of they made such features an open-source extension to Git.