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Just a PSA Git is distributed, fire up a quick instance with git daemon.

git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths .git/

>> Just a PSA Git is distributed

Can you please elaborate?

Public Service Announcement

You can have multiple remotes for your Git repositories, one of them (Github) being down should not affect your work since you can coordinate a new one with your team in the manner described above.

Yep! I usually setup a mirror at bitbucket and set my local to push to both github and bitbucket and only pull from github. It worked well when github was down and I needed a branch from a remote developer.

Nice. I didn't know you could push to multiple remotes (in the same command). Could you give me an example? Thanks!

The reply right under mine seems to be a reply to you. It has a stackoverflow link that shows you how to setup two URLs in your origin remote.

Can't reply to the child to this comment, so I'll add this as a new child:

Here's how to set multiple remotes. (See answer 2). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/849308/pull-push-from-mul...