{"id":102,"date":"2007-08-27T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:29:33","slug":"opening-up-to-distributed-version-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening up to distributed version control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano has written a great introspective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/linotype\/news\/106\/\">post<\/a> on his inner reactions to a Linus video on Git.   It&#8217;s good to see people being more open minded about this.  I&#8217;ve never understood the resistance to distributed version control, especially open source software development is itself an example of the success decentralization.    Even the &#8220;social&#8221; argument that distributed version control would somehow destroy communities seems odd to me.   This year at the OSCON Art of Community panel, Karl Fogel said that a tenet of the Subversion team is to avoid using technology to solve social problems.   Yet insisting on a centralized version control system seems to me to be doing exactly that.   I think its noteworthy that the Subversion team itself has a &#8220;hybrid distributed\/centralized VC model&#8221; as a <a href=\"http:\/\/subversion.tigris.org\/roadmap.html\">long term goal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Centralization in open source projects is a &#8220;community smell&#8221; (think code smell).   It&#8217;s best avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano has written a great introspective post on his inner reactions to a Linus video on Git. It&#8217;s good to see people being more open minded about this. I&#8217;ve never understood the resistance to distributed version control, especially open source software development is itself an example of the success decentralization. Even the &#8220;social&#8221; argument that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[146,134,45],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phUVc-1E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}