You can archive a repository to make it read-only for all users and indicate that it's no longer actively maintained. You can also unarchive repositories that have been archived.

You can archive, back up, and cite your work using the GitHub UI, the API, or third-party tools and services.

Jan 1, 2015 · Open-source developers all over the world are working on millions of projects: writing code & documentation, fixing & submitting bugs, and so forth. GH Archive is a project to record the public …

You can archive items, keeping them available to restore, or permanently delete them. A project can contain a maximum of 50,000 items across both active views and the archive page. You can archive …

On 02/02/2020 GitHub captured a snapshot of every active public repository. Those millions of repos were then archived to hardened film designed to last for 1,000 years, and stored in the GitHub Arctic …

Source code archives are generated on request, cached for a while, and then deleted. If the same archive is requested again in the future, it'll be regenerated.

Content based on www.gharchive.org used under the CC-BY-4.0 license. Note this repository does not contain the GH Archive dataset (event archives/data). The dataset includes material that may be …

Jul 1, 2025 · GitHub users and contributors are also key to this open-source software repository preservation effort. This world’s open-source software storage, in a long-term perspective, becomes …

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This guide is included at the beginning of each of the 186 hardened film reels we used to archive every active public GitHub repository as of 2/2/2020. Please create a pull request for any specific proposed …