> Why must I be part of a team? Why can't I just be hacking randomly and syncing my history with my personal server as I feel like it.

Sure, go, do. Just don't pretend that there are no teams and no other people that have different use cases.

Likewise, acknowledge that many other people have use cases where git works very well for them. That might have more to do with its popularity than a mad love for DVCS.

Go three post up, read the last paragraph. I'll quote it for your convenience:

> I consider git a perfect match for loosely knit teams that are spread around the world and travel a lot. It's a great tool for OS development, but it's advantages quickly evaporate for teams that sit in a centralized location with a good connection to the server (cable, Gigbit) and only ever work from there.

Yes, and that argument was silly. There are many use cases besides dispersed teams and road warriors where git's weaknesses never actually come up and its strengths are useful. However, your arguments, like TFA's, rely on an unconvincing and entirely unproven premise that git doesn't actually suit most coders' use of it.

> However, your arguments, like TFA's, rely on an unconvincing and entirely unproven premise that git doesn't actually suit most coders' use of it.

No. The premise is "a system is conceivable that has gits upsides and less of its downsides" and look - facebook is even building it.

That's a premise so inane that it goes right into meaninglessness. Everything is "conceivable", especially "something that works as well as what I'm using in every way, but doesn't have problem X". It does nothing to conceive that, though.

As to what Facebook's building, meh. Anyone can try to build a better-in-every-way-for-every-application VCS, but look to TFA for a list of just some of the failed attempts to produce better version control mousetraps. It's more likely that they'll produce something that will be handy for niche uses than something that will be a clear win over git for everyone else.

> Sure, go, do. Just don't pretend that there are no teams and no other people that have different use cases.

Sure, there are. I've worked on them. I've had networking not work, servers fail, diffs take forever because of an overloaded server. Honestly, at this point, I can't conceive of working in a centralized VCS anymore, so unless you make a salient point about what can be done with one that can't be done with a DVCS it's all opinion vs opinion.