[svlug] Preventing a Revision Control Flamewar

[Greg Lindahl]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:08:35PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote:

> Yes, he is certain to make his point, but the real point is that we live 
> and develop in a distributed environment on the web, and using a 
> centralized repository is a poor solution at best.
>
> This is actually a good point, and one that really needs to be driven 
> home.

It falls flat for people who don't live and develop in a distributed
environment. The companies I've worked for have used Mercurial, and we
use it in a centralized fashion, because that's how our business is
organized. It's funny that most DVCS devotees can't comprehend that
such users exist.

We do use some of the DVCSness of Mercurial. But we use a push model
to a central repo, while most really distributed projects use a pull
model.

-- greg