[bcrescimanno]

FWIW, that last bullet, aside from being the most egregious example of hyperbole in TFA, shows a complete lack of understanding of how git works.

[refulgentis]

Nothing in the article would lead one to believe he didn't understand the distributed nature of git repositories, but a lot in the article would lead one to believe he was specifically referring to the data loss issues on GitHub if someone wiped out a project.

[icebraining]

If the project was deleted from Github, you'd just have to create a new one push a local clone to it. That's hardly what that point is saying.