Package: github-backup Version: 1.20130622 Severity: wishlist The github API rate limit is 60 by default, which is very easy to hit when running github-backup.
https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting It would be great if github-backup could wait until the UNIX timestamp from the X-RateLimit-Reset HTTP header when the X-RateLimit-Remaining HTTP header reaches zero. It would be great if I could specify some login credentials for Basic Authentication or OAuth. I can't tell if github-backup is doing this already but it would be great if github-backup could use the Last-Modified, ETag, If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match HTTP headers to only incur an API rate limit penalty when there has been an update to the data: https://developer.github.com/v3/#conditional-requests With these in place I would never get any error mails from cron or errors from mr backup and would not have to repeat github-backup commands run interactively. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.11-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages github-backup depends on: ii git 1:1.8.4~rc3-1 ii libc6 2.17-92+b1 ii libffi6 3.0.13-4 ii libgmp10 2:5.1.2+dfsg-2 ii libicu48 4.8.1.1-13 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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