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These has two problems, first it will impose you to use the official or a compatible GitHub interface, not the command line or whatever git GUI interface you want. Even with that, it is impossible to use offline, while your git history is local and can be consulted whenever you want without a connection, and you can make whatever changes you want and push them when you have internet access.

The second problem is that it's not portable, it's something internal of GitHub, that is fine till you use GitHub, when you need to migrate to another server, or host your own git repository, for reasons (GitHub changes plans, GitHub closes down, GitHub no longer wants to host your project, etc) what do you do?

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