[stevekemp]

git is decentralised. github issues & merge-requests are not.

Say you have a project hosted on github, pretend github has been purchased by a scary-company, you might imagine you could move your repository elsewhere. You can, but suddenly your issues need to be imported/migrated too.

If you had a fossil-host instead? You could migrate your repository and your issues all at once, and nobody would care.

(Disclaimer: I use github for public projects, and self-hosted gitbucket for private stuff. I don't care that github has changed ownership.)