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by electroly 1134 days ago
GitHub outages aren't nearly long or often enough to consider this. Git is distributed, just keep working locally until GitHub is back up. GitHub outages are nowhere near the threshold of pain I'd require to introduce a second Git hosting provider to the mix.

Really, GitHub outages barely hurt at all. It's not like an AWS or Cloudflare outage which is more likely to be a production disaster. Every outage a bunch of people on HN start screaming about owning their own on-prem destiny or wondering why we're still on GitHub. Nothing changes because it's not nearly as bad as those people are making it out to be. Life is all about tradeoffs.

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Depends how your company is set up. Some people can't run tests locally and just push commits to have some magic run the tests online.