&gt; In case something happens to GitHub. More generally because keeping your data in the cloud and relying on the cloud to back it up is foolish<p>Instead of the cloud, I read that as &quot;the hands of a company that may get sold, shutdown, agendas may change, etc&quot;. I don&#x27;t think that will happen with GitHub anytime soon, but 10 years ago I would have said the same about Sourceforge :-)