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Not really, since everybody who cloned a repo has a full copy of everything.

Reminds me of the saying that writing git was just a backup strategy for Linus Torvalds: FTP-mirrors were the first step to ensure that the kernel was never lost, git was needed to mirror the source-history as well.

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Except all the proprietary lock-in tools they add to Git like the issue tracker, PR's, discussion, wiki, released binaries, container registry, access control settings, etc.

I think you mean Github, those features are not part of git.

That's what they said - 'add to Git'.

> proprietary lock-in tools they add to Git

Git + their other stuff = GitHub.

Of course the immediate parent meant GitHub. It is the grand-parent comment that conflated the two:

> one central point of failure on github?

>> Not really, since everybody who cloned a repo has a full copy of everything.

(everything != Git repo)

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