Curious about SCM choice

[Milo Hyson]

On Jun 27, 2008, at 10:37, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> Do you want a centralized or distributed model for your development  
> model? CVS, SVN, and Perforce are all centralized repositories  
> (Perforce even moreso that the others). Hg, git, and bzr are all  
> decentralized and distributed models.

...

> Moving to SVN makes a lot of sense for the FreeBSD project ... works  
> well with our existing development model (one central repository  
> that everyone talks to).

Can not the "decentralized" systems like Mercurial and GIT be used in  
a centralized fashion? Our internal experiments certainly show them to  
be every bit as capable as Subversion in this regard. Has your  
experience been different?

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Milo Hyson
Chief Scientist
CyberLife Labs