Geert Stappers writes: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 10:05:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Higher chance that the repository won't go away. > > Where is Alioth? As retoric question.
The repositories on Alioth weren't lost and can still be found archived on https://alioth-archive.debian.org/ > What about Vcs-Mirror-* for actual telling where a mirror is. > In case of `git` is "mirror" a "clone" Arguably in Git everything but the maintainer's local repository might be a mirror. This was even called a security feature as hash collisions might need to be sneaked in there to get included in release tarballs[1]. Ansgar [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/pine.lnx.4.58.0504291221250.18...@ppc970.osdl.org/
