github->dat porting tool/module

[joehand]

From @karissa on January 13, 2015 1:30

it'd be nice to be able to provide github as a storage solution/backend module for dat. it might also be nice to have an github -> dat importer or something.

edit: this might not even need a technical solution -- it could be solved by writing a good "github importer guide"

One example where this could be immediately useful is in cases like the following link, where a political scientist has uploaded many csv files which are just too big for Github to display, but small enough where github still seems like a viable option for version control. (github shows "We can't beautify this..)

https://github.com/ulfelder/democracy-measurement-model/blob/master/data.out

Another example is where one wants to port data from a github repo directly into a dat instance. so they were using github for version control, but now want a more robust solution and are looking for dat as an alternative.

Copied from original issue: maxogden/dat#275