Comment by nathan_f77
9 years ago
I'm glad that most of the software development community seems to have settled on git. I get the feeling that I'll still have all of the source code for my projects in 20 years.
Redundant backups are especially important for software companies. It's scary to think how many startups give all cofounders and developers admin access to everything. It helps that git is distributed, but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where a ticked off former employee wipes everyone's laptops and deletes the hosted source code.
Even if you don't update the mirrors regularly, it's good to know that you have some copies of data in BitBucket/GitLab/Heroku/Google Drive.
I don't know if I would hold your breath. 10 years ago I think most people hadn't even heard of git (it was ~2 years old) and Google Code was the hot new thing, and GitHub was a year or so away from creation. At the time most people seemed to be pretty content Subversion and hosting on Sourceforge (before it turned evil) or Google Code, but in the next ~5 years everything changed. Granted git, GitHub, etc. have far more momentum that anything that came before, but this is a field where it feels like the only constant is change.