That is true. When working at a project at work which uses SVN, I luckily have IntelliJ's great stashing/changelist features, acting like a local branch. Many

That is true. When working at a project at work which uses SVN, I luckily have IntelliJ's great stashing/changelist features, acting like a local branch. Many of our projects are using SVN just because it's the easier one (at least until lately) to configure and set up locally. So that's a small win for SVN, and removes the issue of GitHub being down.