tux0r

Then what's with all these devastated comments on social media?

I know. and there are many other ways to host your code. The current GitHub outage shows that most Git users just can't live without a commercial entity stewarding their code though.

I realise that this is theoretically possible. But I don't have a problem that I need to solve right now. Others, on the other hand, seem only too happy to make themselves dependent on monopolistic corporations.

Fossil, mostly, with some Darcs and SCCS thrown in the mix. Some of my older stuff still resides on SVN (and is perfectly reachable right now).

I think I only have one project on GitHub that's not only a mirror. This incident reminds me that this was meant to be a temporary solution.

It doesn't look so optional to me if I read the tearful reactions on social media correctly. Apparently, an overwhelming majority of Git users ‘can't work’ when GitHub is down.

I love how the same people who try to drag me towards using Git are the only people who seem to have serious problems working on their code when a website goes down.

But Git is so great because it is so decentralised. Everyone says that. I should use Git, they say, because Git still works offline and it's so decentralised. And doesn't depend on centralised servers like ‘the evil SVN’. Then that shouldn't be a problem for anyone ;-)