Why another git detector/dumper ?

[noraj]

Hi,

Can you add a Why another git detector/dumper" section in the README? This is an usual practice for developer that created a new tool that looks very similar to existing tool, to explain why their tool if different/needed, what new it is bringing that other tool can't offer due to technical dept, why it was not possible to join current maintainer of existing tool to help them adding a need feature rather than creating a new fork or tool from scratch that just divide the community.

There is already well-known quality tools such as dvcs-ripper or GitTools so you must have a good reason to develop yet another tool from scratch and alone.
Because I don't see why people should use this tool rather than existing one that are more maintained. Both dvcs-ripper and GitTools can dump git directory and not only dump the last revision like the githack tool you mentioned.

[WangYihang]

yeah, this is a good question, I will make a video to compare these tools and explain why this tools is better than others on git folder leakage. :D

[WangYihang]

@noraj Updated, please see README.md
Here are the results:

[noraj]

@WangYihang Looks good! what is the meaning of the environment column?

[WangYihang]

That is a configuration of webserver
Indexes means webserver will list files of an folder when there is no index.html file
-Indexes means webserver will return forbidden in that situation

[WangYihang]

You can just see the videos in the readme file, I recorded everything when I was doing these testing

[noraj]

Well explained ;)

[arthaud]

You should also compare the ability to find packed refs. This is important to dump big repositories.

Looking at the code, I believe your tool doesn't handle this. dvcs-ripper and my own tool both handle it well.

[WangYihang]

@arthaud Cool, a nice resource to learn. I am preparing the examination of Chinese postgraduate entrance this year, so I will add the capability next year. thank you so much for your suggestion!