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Minutes before the outage, my account would seem non-existent and all my repositories gone. They really scared the hell out of me.

This will be a good reminder for me to always keep a local copy.

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Since it's git-based, is it even possible to not keep a local copy? I thought everything that goes into github has to be committed to your local git repo first?

Well, there is always a local copy since you have to commit to the local repo first before you push it to github. That is, of course, as long as you don't remove it for no apparent reason.

I was walking through someone's capistrano scripts, and suddenly everything came back "Not Found". My first thought was that the guy had just starting cleaning up his account. :)

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