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While you wait: the GitHub incident checklist

  1. Scope it by component. GitHub's status page splits Git Operations, API Requests, Webhooks, Actions, Packages, Pages, Codespaces and Copilot into separate components. A red Actions with a green Git Operations changes your response completely.
  2. Separate git from web. git push/pull over SSH and HTTPS can be healthy while the API or web UI is degraded — and vice versa. Test with git ls-remote before declaring code hosting down.
  3. Decide what happens to deploys. If CI/CD runs on Actions or GitHub-hosted runners, choose now: pause deploys, or switch to a break-glass path that doesn't touch GitHub. Queued workflows pile up and start when service recovers — make sure that thundering herd is safe.
  4. Mind your API-polling integrations. Bots, deploy tooling and IDE integrations may be retry-looping against api.github.com and burning your rate limit. Back them off so your recovery window isn't spent rate-limited.
  5. Tell stakeholders precisely. Something like: 'Our code-hosting provider has an incident affecting CI; production is unaffected; deploys are paused until it clears.' Precision kills the is-prod-down panic.

What breaks when GitHub has issues

For most teams a GitHub incident is a change-freeze, not a production outage: Actions pipelines stall, PRs can't merge, and deploys — including the hotfix for whatever else is broken — are blocked. Package installs that pull from GitHub (releases, raw URLs — though Go module fetches often survive via the module proxy) fail, webhooks arrive late and out of order once service recovers, and anything using GitHub OAuth for sign-in can't authenticate new sessions.

FAQ

Can GitHub be down if github.com loads fine for me?

Yes. GitHub reports separate components — Actions, API requests, webhooks, Packages, Codespaces — and one can be down while the website is fine. The answer depends on which component your workflow touches.

Do git push and pull stop working during a GitHub outage?

Not necessarily. Git operations over SSH/HTTPS are a separate component from the web UI and API, and are sometimes unaffected. Test with git ls-remote rather than assuming.

Can I deploy while GitHub is down?

Only if your deploy path doesn't go through GitHub. If artifacts are already built and hosted elsewhere, a manual deploy usually works; anything that clones the repo or runs on GitHub Actions will block.

Where does GitHub post official incident updates?

On www.githubstatus.com — per-component status, incident timeline, and postmortems. That's the same public page this widget reads.

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