Distributed Software Development Explained

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The article covers "enterprise" scenarios with a convoluted writing style ("award-winning tools such as Perforce" means it has to be good). They think distributed means two sites. See http://i.cmpnet.com/ddj/images/article/2008/0807/080703santo... for the world they live in. We even get a new acronym: Distributed Software Development (DSD).

No mention of mercurial, git, darcs, or monotone to be found.

ddj: for when you need your content smashed into 1/4th of your window with small graphics and you miss being advertised to by random underlined words ("developer" obviously means "I want to buy a $5M sun server").

Yeah, I thought that "award-winning" bit was at best superfluous, and the article overall in typical ddj style. I don't care for their style in general: "too corporate" is a short way to phrase it, but I think my dislike goes deeper than that, even if I can't put my finger exactly on whatever it is that irks me.

But, to be fair, they did mention hg and git, albeit in passing.

Except that they didn't even quite get that right. The article seems to contrast git and hg's versioning schemes, when in reality they're both hashes of the content (the non-unique hg version numbers referred to are merely local aliases).

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