By rlamarch
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Published: Jul 30 2008 / 10:40
So, a few years ago all the cool kids were switching from CVS to Subversion. These days, all the cool kids are switching from Subversion to some form of distributed version control; git and Mercurial seem to be the ones with the largest market shares. So, yeah, there’s a lot of hype about DVCS. If I had to guess, I’d say that 90% or more of the claimed benefits of DVCS really do boil down to “wow, it’s easy to merge stuff”. The other big win people often claim for DVCS is offline commits.
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jeremycrosbie replied ago:
The article itself is superficial and demonstrates a passing understanding of what a DVCS is and can do different than something like SVN. I would have expected an article with such a title to go quite a bit deeper as to why someone/some group would choose a DVCS over a centralized alternative.
rkg replied ago:
jeremycrosbie follow the comments, I've found there quite interesting arguments...
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