top | item 6447515 (no title) ehm_may | 12 years ago I pay github for the same reason I pay heroku. It just works and I don't have to do anything. That is why they exist. Sure you can set up your own git server, but what do you do when it goes down? discuss order hn newest shocks|12 years ago The same thing you do when GitHub goes down...PANIC and flock to HN to comment on a minor outage!!! - wait, no. git is a distributed system. You continue as you were and nothing changes. zdw|12 years ago Most likely, you have a full copy of the repo on the local disk, and can just push it to another remote.In this way, DVCS's are resilient to individual server failure.
shocks|12 years ago The same thing you do when GitHub goes down...PANIC and flock to HN to comment on a minor outage!!! - wait, no. git is a distributed system. You continue as you were and nothing changes.
zdw|12 years ago Most likely, you have a full copy of the repo on the local disk, and can just push it to another remote.In this way, DVCS's are resilient to individual server failure.
shocks|12 years ago
PANIC and flock to HN to comment on a minor outage!!! - wait, no. git is a distributed system. You continue as you were and nothing changes.
zdw|12 years ago
In this way, DVCS's are resilient to individual server failure.