[chesser]

> This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard.

Well, I'm just going by TFA, which stated:

"Newly created users and repositories are being restored, but pull request state changes and similar might be gone."

Repos were affected.

> The fact that github can operate at all in a degraded mode very much indicates their competence. Many architectures can not operate without the entire db.

This is a curious statement to make after you started off by recognizing that git handles itself. The only parts of the repositories that broke were the parts they tried to glue to their database.

It's nice of you to give them a pass. I'd say DBAs are pretty horrified. I suppose it's kind of like how the average person can watch CSI where they say, "I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address" and think it's just fine.