In light of this it would be nice if github offered a feature to push repo's to s3 or something every time they receive a push, so you could use that repo until they get back up.
you <--> (X <--> Y)
git add remote <name> <url> git add remote <name> <url> then create a shell script that checks both remotes for the latest if one is greater than the other merge the two if they are the same then push to both. Then just always push with that script.
Just how I've handled it so far. That said a autoMagical way of handling it built into github/git itself would be cool.
Doesn't help if you use GitHub for issues, of course, but hey!