On 2/1/2011 3:11 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
Okay. Let me just say this once and for all. The thing that really bugs me when people start talking about how wonderful DVCS's are is that as far as I am concerned, *The physical location of the data does not matter much.*
The thing that I like about DVCS is that it gives me a way to make more frequent commits without worrying about whether or not I will break the build for other users. This gives me the ability to easily work on a feature or what not and say, make a commit everytime I save a file, even when my source might not even compile, it is equivalent to a lot of IDEs that offer a local history feature such as eclipse, netbeans or intellij, then when I am done I just push my changes to the main repo. The key difference being that I don't have to explicitly create a new branch for this, and since it can be done offline, I can do this say, on my 18 hour flight to Moscow on saturday...