They're already mirrored on my hard drive. That's how git works.
This is not to mention all the projects that rely on Github for project management, devops, community and support desk.
GitHub is also very international, I doubt isolated netziens like those from China are shielded from this outage. I imagine very, very few software shops are unscathed by this. The whole affair is very on brand for 21st century software which is to say pitiful.
- Make everyone dependent on all the centralized features of your software to use Git[1][2]
- Now you have a de facto centralized, hard to use VCS with thousands of SO questions like “my code won’t commit to the GitHub”
- Every time you go down a hundreds-of-comments post is posted on HN
How to get bought for a ton of cash by a tech mega corporation.
[1] Of course an exaggeration. Everyone can use it in a distributed way or mirror. The problem occurs when you’re on a team and everyone else doesn’t know how to.
[2] I’m pretty sure that even the contributors to the Git project rely on the GitHub CI since they can’t run all tests locally.
Another bonus is that we don't pay Microsoft.