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Sry... Linus knows better... and Git rox! :)

Poor logic. I am not a DVCS zealot, but this blog was weak. One telltale sign is the attempted renaming of a widely-accepted product category. Seems a little disingenious.

The author misses the point of Git completely. It does not seem like he has ever tried using the software he is bashing. For example, the blogger says, "The problem is that, at any one moment in time, there is no ‘golden-copy’ of the source code assets, except via unenforceable convention. This presents quite a large problem to most software companies who undertake continuous builds". Wouldn't a simple convention be that the golden-copy is the one that the continuous build server is using. How is this any different than what people do with a non-distributed version control system?

On the positive, the blogger does note his immense conflict of interest in that his company building a competing product.

So my advice to all is ignore this flamebait article.

Unfortunately misguided. Take Mercurial, for example. You can run it in centralized and connected repository mode if you want to. In fact, the documentation even discusses this very specific use case.

This guy is a goofball (and an appropriate spokesman for his product). There were comments on the blog this morning, now there are none. He couldn't take the heat or respond intelligently. And he was the one who submitted the story to DZone. Funny.

The questions are answered on his Blog.
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