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Could Github store mirrors of all repositories on some third-party service, like S3?

Even if they were only updated every 24 hours and had a limited history for each repo, it still seems like it would be a really useful fallback that they could put up when things like this happen.

It's actually not that hard to set up your git to push to both Github and another repository at the same time.

Sure, it's easy to do with your own code. But what about apps that don't vendor their dependencies? If you need to pull in third-party dependencies when you deploy or test, it's still possible to maintain your own mirror, but it would be nice if you could depend on the code being "up".

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