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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

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Re: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

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Post by Stephen304 »

Heh, I didn't expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo's latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn't rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github/dmca didn't affect the PR like I thought it would, so it seems a mirror of youtube-dl's commits are stuck in the ether until GH deletes my PR and garbage collects the repo.

Re: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

#4

Post by mmastrac »

Stephen304 wrote: post #3

Heh, I didn't expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo's latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn't rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github/dmca didn't affect the PR like I thought it would, s…

This is such a great hack. I approved the PR, naturally.

Re: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

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Post by Iv »

mmastrac wrote: post #4
Stephen304 wrote: post #3

Heh, I didn't expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo's latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn't rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github/dmca didn't affect the PR like I thought it would, s…

This is such a great hack. I approved the PR, naturally.

Note that a hack is not a fix.

All of you, write to your representatives about that if you care. In EU when they were going to put some similar laws we all organized and wrote massively to the parliament and they backed down. It is a lot of effort but it works.

Re: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

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Post by MrStonedOne »

madars wrote: post #2

It looks like this is the corresponding PR: https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8142

if you have the dmca repo on your computer, you can checkout this PR via git fetch upstream pull/8142/head:pr-8142&&git checkout pr-8142

Should work even if they blackhole the pr.

Re: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

#9

Post by joeblau »

Stephen304 wrote: post #3

Heh, I didn't expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo's latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn't rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github/dmca didn't affect the PR like I thought it would, s…

I don't understand what's going on here. Can you explain?

Re: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

#10

Post by MrStonedOne »

Stephen304 wrote: post #3

Heh, I didn't expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo's latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn't rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github/dmca didn't affect the PR like I thought it would, s…

>Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github/dmca didn't affect the PR like I thought it would

Making the pr will put the branch in the target repo under pull//head

the commit will forever be referenced

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