
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
This PR resolves the issue reported in #852
As @jadinm correctly identified in #852, this bug centers around the fact that the regex utilized by
_index_from_patch_format()ingit/diff.pyalways expects the first line of the diff to have theafile first, thenb:When the
otherpassed torepo.index.diff(other)is notNonethe-Rargument is added to the git command, resulting in the positions of theaandbfiles being flipped in the output and causing the_index_from_patch_format()function invoked by thecreate_patchoption to not find a regex match:This fix makes the regex slightly more permissive, allowing it to match either order of the
aandbfiles in the output ofgit diff.For test coverage of this change I added assertions to an existing test within
test_diff.pythat set up everything needed to reproduce this bug.Massive props to @jadinm, their troubleshooting and feedback on the issue significantly shortened the investigation required to get this one sorted out🎉