Amit Saha • 3/26/2017

Notes on using Go to write gitbackup

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This article details the development experience of creating gitbackup, a Go-based tool for backing up Git repositories from GitHub and GitLab. It focuses on a specific technical improvement: replacing direct use of the `os` package with the `afero` library for filesystem operations to enable in-memory testing. The author explains the code changes and the benefits for testing and code quality.

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