The thing that people need to get through their head is that distributed version control is a whole different concept. There are some things it is great at. There are some things it sucks at. Centralized version control is great at some other things, and lousy at some other things too.
I am thinking for example that if you are going for a PA-DSS-certified application, git, particularly with the ability to rewrite history, is going to be a problem, but dvs generally will provide more problems in assuring the auditor that you can locate, trace, and take corrective action if someone introduces a security issue (perhaps intentionally) into your application. I don't see git really working in that environment.
On the other hand, if you have a lively project that everyone is experimenting with and you need to merge patches occasionally to create a stable release, yeah, it's much better.
For any given project, no matter how distributed the development, you will have a "blessed" repository, from which the official releases are made. The history of this "blessed" repository is made not rewritable, even if anyone can push new stuff to it. The config files and hooks can be made writable by only admins.
Or you use a maintainer model, where the "blessed" repository is not even pushable. A maintainer (or a group of them) chooses what he merges in.
The thing that people need to get through their head is that distributed version control is a whole different concept. There are some things it is great at. There are some things it sucks at. Centralized version control is great at some other things, and lousy at some other things too.
I am thinking for example that if you are going for a PA-DSS-certified application, git, particularly with the ability to rewrite history, is going to be a problem, but dvs generally will provide more problems in assuring the auditor that you can locate, trace, and take corrective action if someone introduces a security issue (perhaps intentionally) into your application. I don't see git really working in that environment.
On the other hand, if you have a lively project that everyone is experimenting with and you need to merge patches occasionally to create a stable release, yeah, it's much better.