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missing the point (Score:1)

by rjbs (4671)

So today I talk to one of my former colleagues and I tell him that I'm trying out git and svk and how it is going to solve my problems. He said it sounds cool but it would probably never fly in a corporate environment where they want everything centralized so it can be controlled, backed up, etc.
As you suggest, this is a common way to miss the point. With distributed version control there can still be a central, canonical repository that can be backed up, controlled, etc. There's also always uncontrolled

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Hmmm... (Score:2)

by Dom2 (2981)
There has beeen a large amount of talk about distributed VCS recently, and git in particular. However talk of it (git in particular) penetrating corporate environments seems premature, until:
- There is proper IDE integration (like subclipse [gttp] or a Visual Studio addon)
- It runs decently on Windows [perl.org].
Which, to be quite frank, is a crying shame.

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