On: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

[cheez]

  git init --bare repo
  git clone repo clone
  cd clone
  <stuff>
  git add ...
  git commit ...
  git push

[scott_s → cheez]

Yes, you can use git locally without pushing anywhere, including GitHub. But, the original commenter explicitly mentioned GitHub, presumably because GitHub allows a similar kind of browsing experience of the notes that Quiver does. Specifically, GitHub has a markdown renderer.