Version Control Software

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.3359.1371275633.3114.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Tim Delaney
> <timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can absolutely confirm how much ClearCase slows things down. I completely
> > refused to use dynamic views for several reasons - #1 being that if you lost
> > your network connection you couldn't work at all...
> 
> And that right there is why modern source control systems are
> distributed, not centralized. It's so much easier with git; we lost
> our central hub at one point, and another dev and I simply pulled from
> each other for a bit until we got a new Scaphio online. With
> centralized version control, that would have basically meant a
> complete outage until the new box was up.
> 
> ChrisA

The advantage of DVCS is that everybody has a full copy of the repo.  
The disadvantage of the DVCS is that every MUST have a full copy of the 
repo.  When a repo gets big, you may not want to pull all of that data 
just to get the subtree you need.