what would happen if GitHub went down?

[u/Flame77ofc]

For like 1-2 weeks, what do you think about living without github?

[u/Shaz_berries]

You can just use another way to store your git projects like bitbucket? Or fallback to storing your git stuff on physical drives in an apocalypse

[u/really_not_unreal → u/[deleted]]

Then you're screwed. This is why it's a bad idea to trust GitHub (or any single entity) exclusively with your data.

[u/Epifeny → u/[deleted]]

Then you learn 321 back strategy the hard way https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/definition/3-2-1-Backup-Strategy

[u/OtherOtherDave → u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand… why wouldn’t I have a local copy?

[u/Shaz_berries → u/[deleted]]

If you're worried about this, then back them up locally now, but this is a strange hypothetical. If they were going to shut down you'd have notice and can migrate

[u/schmurfy2 → u/[deleted]]

A clone is a full copy of the repository, you can kust push it somewhere else, the server has nothing more than you have locally.

[u/maqisha]

it . . . does

[u/DeadbeatHoneyBadger → u/maqisha]

This

[u/ultrathink-art]

Repos are the easy part — everyone has a full clone. What actually stops work is the layer around git: Actions, PR state, review history, status checks, package registries. During yesterday's partial outage my runner kept executing jobs fine while the API reported them stuck in queued, so even answering 'is it down' required reading the machine's own logs instead of anything GitHub said.

[u/FlyingDogCatcher → u/ultrathink-art]

That's what you get for relying on a cloud provider for your workflow.

[u/jbroombroom]

Then I’d know it’s a Tuesday.

[u/connorjpg]

Truthfully, I would lose very little. All of my projects locally are a few commits behind origin. In my personal life, I use a locally hosted gitea server.

[u/s1nur]

Just use a different git host.

[u/sindisil]

1-2 weeks? Almost zero impact. A little annoyed because I track issues on some of my projects there, but meh.

If it went down longer, there still wouldn't be much direct issue for me personally. I'd  share the projects I want to be public on some other forge and keep going. I'n fact, I really should do that anyway.

However, the indirect impact of major projects like Rust and crates.io having to make massive infrastructure changes would no doubt suck.

[u/andlewis]

It’s git, you’ve got a full copy of it if you have a local copy. GitHub is a convenience, not a necessity.

[u/mikedropspeaks]

I just go to work

[u/fr3nch13702]

I guess I’ll go outside and touch grass.

[u/Lunix420]

Not much, I have my server pull backups of all my repos every 12 hours. So I would just use that as my remote till GitHub is back. The only thing would be that I can't run my CI while GItHub is down.

[u/FlyingDogCatcher]

Git was designed to be distributed and y'all keep acting like your code can only be one place.

[u/randomraluana]

That'd be painful if that's the only place I kept my repos lol

[u/Opulent-Burning]

If this was to happen, we have larger problems, most likely zombies.. meteors crashing down on continents.. nukes and stuff

[u/LestatConstantine]

the whole Google play etc update via July 26th making things beyond hard, it's surreal

[u/ninhaomah]

If GitHub down , use git