Talk:Distributed version control

message: I am a bit confused, why does this kind of thing have label of "distributed". According https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing definition, it means that more than single computer is cooperating on single operation. This does not apply to "Distributed version control". I would personally call it "Decentralized version control". Where is origin of "Distributed" come from? PS: As not native speaker I am not sure about etymology of given word. This can perhaps help too.
Can someone add a few sentences about this discrepancy to the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.92.248.121 (talk) 09:30, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Distributed vs Decentralized

message: I just tagged this article for cleanup, but sourcing is another issue. Please don't be offended if you have been working on this article. I have put the tag up for the following reasons:
#The article is rather 'listy'.
#the article is mainly unsourced
#The section headings don't follow the Manual of style.
#There are many external links in the article, that should be replaced with wikilinks, or not be linked at all.
#The statement "fairly recent" in first paragraph is not a statement that will age well. Give an approximate year at least. 
#The introductory part after "other differences are as follows" is confusing organizational issues (peer approval, and all that Linus styled organization) with the actual DVCS differences with centralized VC.  After all, you can organize centralized repository access in same manner, even distributed repositories.
If someone could provide some sourced from which this article is built, I'll be happy to help out improving it. Martijn Hoekstra 19:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: A diagram of some kind illustrating the differences between centralized and distributed VC would help a lot  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.89.0.118 (talk) 15:28, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram 

message: The article says that "The first DVCS is Reliable Software's Code Co-op (1997)". However, I've just run across an academic paper describing one earlier than that:
'O'Donovan, B.; Grimson, J.B., "A distributed version control system for wide area networks," Software Engineering Journal , vol.5, no.5, pp.255-262, Sep 1990'. 
It was implemented over UUCP (!) although to be fair, they say they wrapped UUCP calls in an abstraction layer so it could be replaced.
Should this be added to the history section?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajb (talk • contribs) 13:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, that's really intersting. RossPatterson (talk) 13:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: hi guys,
might locking be a feature people used to svn might miss in dvcs. i see no way of having lock-modify-commit in dvcs but arts people only want it this way.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.143.104.254 (talk) 14:08, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  locking? 

message: In my wording would be "Every working copy is effectively a fork." As a copy does not necessarily mean commits and commits are needed to talk of a branch. Branching happens whenever one revision has more than one successor. Changing that in the article ...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.174.24.74 (talk) 11:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Every working copy is effectively a branch."? 

message: Pull request redirects here but there's nothing in the article defining the term. Looks like a TODO. 2.101.108.194 (talk) 11:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not really a technical term or VCS feature.  It just means you make a patch in your local repository and then ask someone maintaining an upstream repository to pull your change.  It's like the "edit request" you made here on Wikipedia by posting to the talk page.  Github has an actual pull request button, but again, that just posts some alerts for people to look at.  Added: I guess LKML has a bit of formal process around pull requests, but I'm not a participant and am not sure how it works. 70.36.142.114 (talk) 16:47, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  pull request 

message: Why name this article "Distributed revision control" instead of "Distributed Version Control"?
It is interesting to see that if you lookup that expression on Google, apart from this article and the Revision control article, the first page of results is mostly pages on DVCS, not DRC or DRCS.
On a more quantitative and objective note, Google Fight place DVC an order of magnitude higher than DRV (litterally: 9,960k against 979k at the time of writing). Nowhere man (talk) 17:10, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distributed version control vs. Distributed revision control 

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