From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:47:27 -0000 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: <4949A08A7B0445C2953FDB0F0C870BF0@PhilipOakley> References: <54F2CD12.8050609@gmail.com> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Stefan Beller" , X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 15:46:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YUywp-0001qK-ID for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:46:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932605AbbCIOqT (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:46:19 -0400 Received: from out1.ip05ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.241]:23424 "EHLO out1.ip05ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932350AbbCIOqR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:46:17 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A2DHIABKsf1UPIMkFlxagwZSWoMKgy1ttUmFdoVyBIEmTgEBAQEBAQUBAQEBOCAbhAoFAQEBAQMIAQEZFR4BASwCAwUCAQMOBwEEAgUhAgIUAQQaBgcDFAYBEggCAQIDAQ2IFahIhlOUWSCBIYl2h10vgRYFkA9fgwWHCTmOX4NChBE+MYJDAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A2DHIABKsf1UPIMkFlxagwZSWoMKgy1ttUmFdoVyBIEmTgEBAQEBAQUBAQEBOCAbhAoFAQEBAQMIAQEZFR4BASwCAwUCAQMOBwEEAgUhAgIUAQQaBgcDFAYBEggCAQIDAQ2IFahIhlOUWSCBIYl2h10vgRYFkA9fgwWHCTmOX4NChBE+MYJDAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,368,1422921600"; d="scan'208";a="586159900" Received: from host-92-22-36-131.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([92.22.36.131]) by out1.ip05ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 09 Mar 2015 14:46:16 +0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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