From: Philip Oakley Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:31:27 GMT Subject: Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git Message-ID: <4949A08A7B0445C2953FDB0F0C870BF0@PhilipOakley> In-Reply-To: From: "Stefan Beller" Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 3:29 AM > bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity > -- The part that the author misses is not all the nice (or not so) stuff about having a copy of the full repository locally, for all the reasons he mentions, rather it is the *distribution of control*. In most centralised repo systems there is also centralisation of control. The user does not have control. I may initiate a request for change, but it's authorisation is always somewhere else, to avoid my accidental pollution of the golden source. The thing that a DVCS brings to the user is an ability to regain a little control of their own environment and to include version recording within it. The fact that it can be integrated seamlessly into the golden source makes it a great tool providing a win-win for all, especially when a Hub environment provides a separation between the golden source and the user's perambulations and peregrinations that they'd like on a safe server. It is the distribution of Control, not the distribution of Code that makes DVCS such a winner (for users). The distribution of all the code is icing on the cake (though natural in a FOSS project). -- Philip