All aboard the hype train.<p>Seriously, tho. The code history is the important part and DVCS provides plenty of redundant offline backups.<p>If people want issues saved offline, GitHub provides an API that makes it relatively easy to pull down the issues.<p>It wouldn&#x27;t take a monumental effort to create an offline client.<p>Maybe if GitHub added some metadata to their models&#x2F;api, it would be possible to diff the changes, cache data offline, and reduce requests.<p>Just don&#x27;t version issues because recording all of the changes over time isn&#x27;t worth saving.