Consider how you'd phrase it if your comrade were standing next to you instead of being on the Internet. I understand your point that git is git. The code woul

Consider how you'd phrase it if your comrade were standing next to you instead of being on the Internet. I understand your point that git is git. The code wouldn't be lost. But it would be an undeniable several months of chaos if Github's servers were wiped. Every project standing up its own site... the open source world would effectively cease development for a short time.