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Not to mention that github's foundation is git which is very much open source so your repos are moveable.


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Sparrow's foundation is imap/smtp...

True, but I expect you use access github through the standard "git commit" , "git pull" type commands. So switching git providers can be done relatively transparently without changing the "UI".

Although I guess you would lose whatever extra features github provides, which is partly why I build my git workflow around "standard" git.


What extra features? Github is hosting and a nice UI.

GitHub's value is not what you think it is. It goes beyond Git hosting, being a social network for developers and OSS projects. Anybody can setup their own remote git repo on a cheap Linode or EC2 micro instance, but replacing a social network is almost impossible.

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