Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

From: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>
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