GitHub Broken Download URLs

• feedback

  89 2,881 6.4

  Discontinued Public feedback discussions for: GitHub for Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more! [Moved to: https://github.com/github-community/community]

  

A sibling comment (from an engineer at GH) has given some insight: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149#discussi...

They have error monitoring, but download URLs are one thing that's tricky to monitor for "errors" correctly because if two URLs 404, how do you know from your Grafana dashboard or whatever which are valid and which aren't? Having run a server whose only purpose is to serve static files -- you get a lot of 404s, all the time. This case would only be picked up by a dashboard if it fatalistically caused an error somewhere (like a 500) but by definition this wasn't ever a 500, it's a 404. Sometimes things you don't understand might actually surprise you, it turns out.

• logrus

  32 24,012 3.0 Go

  Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

I still remember the night when logrus's author decided to rename his Github account and broke our production build (https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/pull/384). Since then, I always vendor third party dependencies.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• repo

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Ran into this issue when was updating package. But then, I did not find anywhere mentioned this url documented anywhere. I.e currently broken link to archives https://github.com/USER/REPO/archive/TAG/REPO-TAG.tar.gz vs currently working and documented URL https://github.com/USER/REPO/archive/refs/tags/TAG.tar.gz

Is there a list of pre-defined URLs supported by GitHub?

• Gitea

  280 41,708 10.0 Go

  Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

  

Some software like gitea [1] can mirror github repositories (or vice versa). Some other software like fossil [2] is designed to do not just source code but also issue tracking etc. in a decentralised fashion.

It's definitely more work than just throwing it onto GitHub though, something more convenient would be really cool.

[1] https://gitea.io/

• spaCy

  106 28,660 9.3 Python

  💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

  

Is this issue also related? https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/9606

• example

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Git allows checking out only a limited set of changes with the --depth flag:

    git clone --branch v1.0 --depth 1 https://github.com/example/example.git

Suggest a related project