[meepmorp]

Yeah, I think what people really liked about git (vs many other VCSs at the time) was cheap and easy local branching, not the distributed nature.

[tracker1]

I think the distributed support is pretty nice for easy-ish mirroring. Even to a relatively bare git+ssh target on a self-hosted server. No specialized services required. I mean, just for VCS.

[keybored]

Local and distributed is the same difference to me compared to subversion.