Do Distributed Version Control Systems promote poor backup habits?
- by John
In a DVCS, each developer has an entire repository on their workstation, to which they can commit all their changes. Then they can merge their repo with someone else's, or clone it, or whatever (as I understand it, I'm not a DVCS user).
To me that flags a side-effect, of being more vulnerable to forgetting to backup. In a traditional centralised…