> It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's b

> It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back. You can also quite easily set up a temporary remote (this can be as simple a directory on an SSH server), or if you're on the same local network, pull and push directly from each others' local copies.