>If GitHub vanished entirely, it could be rebuilt using individual user’s own copies of all the projects. It would take ages to accomplish, but it could be done

>If GitHub vanished entirely, it could be rebuilt using individual user’s own copies of all the projects. It would take ages to accomplish, but it could be done. >Still, such work would be painful. In addition to the source code itself, GitHub is also home to countless comments, bug reports and feature requests, not to mention the rich history of changes I'm glad that they mention this. There's a tool called Fossil which is a distributed VCS but it includes a wiki and bug tracker within it. I'm just not sure how a totally decentralized VCS + bug tracker would fit into a model like GitHub.