[__david__]

Well, here's the beauty of Github--if they lose all my repos I just don't care. Since I've got a copy of my repos locally, there's absolutely nothing they can lose... Worse case if they go completely down for a couple days I can still collaborate using ssh or "git send-email".

This is the only reason I decided to use Github after avoiding Sourceforge and their ilk for the past decade and a half.

[jamesbritt]

"This is the only reason I decided to use Github after avoiding Sourceforge and their ilk for the past decade and a half."

But why github? Why not gitorious.org?

If github goes away, I still have my code, but I lose any issues people have filed on the site, and I lose being able to easily check on forks of my projects where people might be doing interesting stuff.

I had been using gitorius.org, but moved to github for all the things other than git that makes one public git host different from another.

[bitserf]

There is the Github API, so you could backup the non-repository data as well by writing a couple of scripts, if you were so inclined.

[jamesbritt]

Right, and I should probably set up something to auto-snag that stuff where it counts, but having to do that is the sort of thing you have to so for any non-git-based site.

It'd be nice of all those related items were also in a repo, easy to pull.

[davnola]

That's the beauty of a DVCS (Git in this case) _not_ Github.