A large part of my work lives in my GitHub account codebude, which has grown over several years. It now contains around 70 repositories, public and private, including forks. You know the trade-off: a hosted account is convenient, but the copy still lives with someone else.
My goal is simple and concrete: every repository should be mirrored automatically to my own self-hosted Forgejo instance once a day. Not as a manual export I will eventually forget, but as a routine that keeps running while I am busy with something else.
That gives me a complete copy I can clone at any time, regardless of what happens to my GitHub account or the service. It does not prevent every possible kind of data loss, but it removes one important dependency.
First I will explain why I take this detour at all. Then we will build the workflow step by step with Gickup, Docker and […]