Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Centralized or distributed?

Just forget about the centralized version control systems. Let's be honest, centralized version control systems are relics of the past. In the times when most of us have the opportunities to work remotely full-time, it is unreasonable to be constrained by all the deficiencies of a centralized VCS. For instance, with CVS or SVN, you can't track the changes when offline. And that's silly.

What should you do when the internet connection at your workplace is temporarily broken or the central repository goes down? Should you forget about all your workflow and just allow changes to pile up until the situation changes, and then just commit them as one huge blob of unstructured updates? No!

Also, most of the centralized ...