[windsurfer]

I'm a student, and I make a new git repo for each assignment or class. Github would become extremely expensive if I was to do this.

And my model for working on git projects is not distributed. We use a centralized model (which is totally viable and one of the many uses) instead of pull requests and branches. On small projects, I find this faster and easier for people to use.

Yes, I have backups, but when my centralized repo goes down, it's annoying to tell people to start pushing and pulling to a USB drive. Workflow is the issue, not losing work.

[bjg]

You mentioned Github would be prohibitively expensive if you were to use it for all of your school assignments?

Github actually has a program where if you tell them you are a student/professor you can get free private repo's.

[windsurfer]

I didn't know that, thanks! Free is always nice :)