Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Backing up Github WG repositories

["Martin Thomson" <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 12:00, Robert Sparks wrote:
> Hi Martin -
> 
> Have you tried using the organization migration api 
> (<https://developer.github.com/v3/migrations/orgs/> or something like 
> <https://github.com/josegonzalez/python-github-backup> against one or 
> more of the repositories you have the owner role for? It would be good 
> to know if either of those capture labels or comments.

So I have used the v3 "REST" API, which does offer the ability to capture comments.  (I think that is what you mean by the first reference there; the organization migration option isn't really relevant here, by my understanding.)  I just didn't use that capability, mostly because the API already requires a massive amount of data.  There is a graphql API (https://developer.github.com/v4/) that is better in that regard, but I haven't had time to play with it.

The API has information about labels. I have used that successfully.

The python tool appears to capture labels and comments, but I haven't tried it.  I don't know what format it stores data in. That might be critical to determining its suitability for this project.