Simon Willison 12/31/2025

TIL: Downloading archived Git repositories from archive.softwareheritage.org

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The article details the process of recovering a deleted open-source Git repository (sqlite-s3vfs) from the Software Heritage archive. It explains the non-obvious retrieval steps and introduces a new tool, the Software Heritage Repository Retriever, built to leverage their CORS-enabled APIs.

TIL: Downloading archived Git repositories from archive.softwareheritage.org

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