Here's my problem with this article: Return to sanity by adopting what?
I work on several small-ish projects, and due to the leads coming and going, there are a smattering of source control solutions. On a weekly basis, I use SVN, TFS, and Git about equally.
However, the workflow supported by Git is by far the best for me: I can commit locally as much as I want, rebase the commits or just merge them with work other people are doing, bisect if I broke something, and even branch locally to experiment or when I get interrupted by a question or another task.
Neither TFS nor SVN support this at all. With both of them, I can't really check in until I'm completely done and sure I won't break the build or tests. I end up zipping my directory or fighting with patches/shelvesets that don't do what I want.
Now, does the way I want to work require a DVCS? I don't know - perhaps it doesn't in a theoretical sense. However, DVCS is the only one that actually supports that now.
So sure, we all push to the same repository and it could be a centralized system. But what would actually work? What can I switch to? I'm not abandoning Git for TFS or SVN, that's for sure. Nor Perforce which was also painful.
Yes, you convinced me I don't need the "D" in DVCS. So make a CVS that supports local branching, commiting, sane merging and diffing and show it to me! But complaining that I'm not using one of the features of my DVCS has no bearing on if I should abandon it or not.
I work on several small-ish projects, and due to the leads coming and going, there are a smattering of source control solutions. On a weekly basis, I use SVN, TFS, and Git about equally.
However, the workflow supported by Git is by far the best for me: I can commit locally as much as I want, rebase the commits or just merge them with work other people are doing, bisect if I broke something, and even branch locally to experiment or when I get interrupted by a question or another task.
Neither TFS nor SVN support this at all. With both of them, I can't really check in until I'm completely done and sure I won't break the build or tests. I end up zipping my directory or fighting with patches/shelvesets that don't do what I want.
Now, does the way I want to work require a DVCS? I don't know - perhaps it doesn't in a theoretical sense. However, DVCS is the only one that actually supports that now.
So sure, we all push to the same repository and it could be a centralized system. But what would actually work? What can I switch to? I'm not abandoning Git for TFS or SVN, that's for sure. Nor Perforce which was also painful.
Yes, you convinced me I don't need the "D" in DVCS. So make a CVS that supports local branching, commiting, sane merging and diffing and show it to me! But complaining that I'm not using one of the features of my DVCS has no bearing on if I should abandon it or not.