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I'd argue that at least their API indicates they try to reduce rather than reinforce this lock-in. The API lets you build tools like https://github.com/colmsjo/github-issues-export to automatically export data from issues and other project data stored outside of git.

Moving this data is still not trivial but I don't think GitHub could unilaterally make it much easier.

(https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/)

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I'd love to see a standard develop for storing this information in-repo. GitHub could certainly drive such an initiative.

You might be thinking about fossil. Every feature is in-repo.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

That looks really cool. Is anybody already using this?

Well, SQLite is using it of course ;-)

Other large projects include Tcl/Tk and many related extensions, as well as all the cool stuff I write:

http://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/

There's git-bug: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

Well I guess they also have to make this possible as it is one of the principles in GDPR. Data portability

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