Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
by acdha on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @05:03PM
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This statement reflects a misunderstanding of the problem:
In either case, you will lose unpublished work in the event of a catastrophic local drive failure.
Only in the case of a centralized system, you will also be unable to work unless the entire network path and remote server is available. This will almost never be a question of data loss but it means that you will be unable to perform version control operations until it's resolved.
In either case, you will lose unpublished work in the event of a catastrophic local drive failure.
Only in the case of a centralized system, you will also be unable to work unless the entire network path and remote server is available. This will almost never be a question of data loss but it means that you will be unable to perform version control operations until it's resolved.