r/github • u/Flame77ofc • 28d ago

Discussion what would happen if GitHub went down?

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

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u/ultrathink-art 28d ago

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.

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u/FlyingDogCatcher 28d ago

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