Re: Moving to Github ... ?

On 7 May 2026 at 20:49, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:

From:	Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <[email protected]>
Date sent:	Thu, 7 May 2026 20:49:13 +0200
Subject:	Re: Moving to Github ... ?
To:	[email protected]
Copies to:	Sam Thursfield via busybox <[email protected]>

> 
> Hi Michael,
> El El jue, 7 may 2026 a las 19:05, Michael D. Setzer II via busybox 
> <[email protected]> escribió: 
> On 7 May 2026 at 16:09, Sam Thursfield via busybox wrote:
> 
> Date sent:Thu, 7 May 2026 16:09:20 +0200
> To:[email protected] 
> Subject:Moving to Github ... ?
> From:Sam Thursfield via busybox <[email protected]>
> Send reply to:Sam Thursfield <[email protected]>
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I notice the busybox.net "Browse Source" website switched to 
> > https://github.com/vda-linux/busybox_mirror. Is it worth treating that 
> > as the canonical location for now?
> > 
> > I can see a couple of previous threads about issues with the 
> busybox.net 
> > Git hosting, I'm guessing this the same infrastructure abuse that 
> most 
> > open source projects have been seeing recently.. my commiserations 
> that 
> > you're having to deal with this :/
> > 
> > * "busybox authoritative git repository (was: AI recommended 
> changing 
> > from using git port to https?)" 
> > (https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2026-April/092059.html )
> > * "Not clear what is going on with site and git." 
> > (https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2026-March/091970.html 
> )
> > 
> 
> Just did a git pull on busybox.net and git-clone on busybox mrror site. 
> These are the differences I got.
> 
> diff -r ./.git/config /home/msetzerii/Downloads/busybox/.git/config
> 
> As discussed several times, it makes no sense to diff the .git directories. 
> This is not the proper way to compare git trees, and just adds noise.
> 

Then what is this Magical Correct Way to correctly compare the 
two trees??

I can download the two trees, and then use diff to compare them. If 
there is a command that will do it better, I would like to know?

Also, the deadlink shows there has been little other change to the 
main web page. Sam was mentioning one change he had noticed. 
But still has 43 - 404 errors. 

I've just been a user of Busybox going back to 2004, so not a big 
user of git other than with pull and clone. So, there may be some 
git command that is a better method.

> […]
> 
> Am running a new deadlink check. Before it had a 145 links on main 
> page, and had 45 - 404 errors, and 3 - 403 errors. 
> 
> 
> This is unrelated to Sam’s question.
> 
> Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
> [email protected]
> 



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