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Well… you can still work with Git when the server is down. Just not GitHub.

That was never the main design consideration of Git, but you nonetheless can make commits and branches when the server is down. Go try it.

Git is not Github. If hotmail.com goes down, it doesn't take down email worldwide with it.

You can continue to work. For example I skipped pushing to Github but I can push to Heroku. No problem. I'll push my code when it is up again.

git != github. If you're worried, you can always push to another remote in the meantime. Does svn do that?

I see you got your centralization in my decentralized protocol.

I'm still working over here. I mean I took a quick break to read HN. But no productivity problems. Why can't you keep working?