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Who cares? You can still code and commit code. Thats the magic of a DVCS.

If its bothering you that you can't push, take a break and watch the football game, or something[1]. The Bills might win their first game this season and the Jets were playing like they're trying to lose to the Browns (but are still winning).

1. No, not everyone is American. But, even in Australia, its not even 8AM on a Monday yet. I think its safe to assume that its not the busiest time in the world.

// edit: My point (glibly made) was that this shouldn't stop you from writing code, if you don't want it to. But, there are plenty of other things to do as well, besides coding.

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It's been down for over an hour. For some of us who work on projects during weekends, this IS one of the busiest times.

I don't know about you but seeing mine and other people's repositories and history completely gone is unsettling, to say the least.

And regarding being able to work without it - well, I happen to need to look into the source code for some of the libraries I depend on.

Git is a dvcs and while magical, GitHub isn't the only way to view a repository or its history.

If you have a clone of your project (and you do have a clone, right? One copy of anything and its never safe), the entire history is still there. You can view it with `git log` or any other web interface out there.

Believe it or not, in this case I did not have a clone of that external library, since I am using it as a jar. I was therefore relying on GitHub for browsing the actual source code.

Nothing is "completely gone". You have the entire repository with history in your local clone.

I decided to download the new F# release on Linux. It comes with a script to install it on mono, but the DLL needs to be resigned with a key that has to be downloaded from github. So I care. But of course, my situation is the exception, not the rule.

I can probably find it elsewhere, but it's still annoying.

It doesn't stop us, no.. but for those of us who use it to collaboratively develop, and who's fabric and hudson scripts for deploying to test and production servers are pointed at it, this is a major pain in the arse.

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